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Conference: North American Women and World War One
On 07, Sep 2017 | In Events | By Nicola Gauld
Saturday, 4 November 2017 10.30am – 3.30pm, CC 004 St. John’s Campus, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ
Organised by The Women’s History Network, Midlands Region
Prof Susan-Mary Grant (Newcastle University) will deliver a keynote address, ‘Women and Children First: American Women and the Military-Medical Matrix in World War I’.
National and international presenters will also consider U.S. Suffragists and World War I; the wartime North American Woman as presented in popular music and Velona Pilcher’s career in theatre, including The Searcher (1929), which depicts a Red Cross worker assigned to track missing soldiers.
The full programme and booking information will be available from October 2017.
For more information, please contact Dr Wendy Toon w.toon@worc.ac.uk
Image: ‘Yeomen (F)’, Group photograph, with a large U.S. flag, taken at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine, 30 October 1918. Some of them are wearing USS Southery hat bands. Other hat bands read U.S. Navy and U.S. Naval Reserve. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph, NH 53175.
