On now! Not all Jam and Jerusalem: the WI in the First and Second World Wars

Not all Jam and Jerusalem: the WI in the First and Second World Wars

A series of events marking the centenary of the first English WI meeting in November 1915

At The Hive, Sawmill Walk, The Butts, Worcester, WR1 3PB

17-22 November

An exhibition of images, artefacts and information about the history of the Women’s Institute Movement, formed 100 years ago by women’s suffrage campaigners to improve the nation’s food supply in WW1.

Wednesday 18 November 10am-4pm

An Activity Day which demonstrates that in wartime the Women’s Institutes did much more than make jam and sing Jerusalem. Watch re-enactments of early WI meetings, enjoy some of the activities that the WI’s undertook in wartime such as knitting and needlework. Take part in evacuation surveys, swap wartime recipes, join a pig-club, plan the post-war world or your ideal home and help construct a virtual quilt.

Activities in the Studio and Seminar Rooms 1 and 3

Thursday 19 November 6.30pm for a 6.45pm start

Not all Jam and Jerusalem: the WI in the First and Second World Wars – a talk by Professor Maggie Andrews in The Hive Studio, enhanced by some films and newsreel footage of the WI in WW2.

Booking essential www.thehiveworcester.org

Friday 20 November

Workshops for Worcestershire WIs in Seminar Rooms 5 and 6

• How to research your WI’s history 10.30-12.00
• How to look after and preserve your WI’s records and archives 1.30-3.00

Booking essential www.thehiveworcester.org

Questions and queries to: msowden@worcestershire.gov.uk or maggie.andrews@worc.ac.uk

Part of the Being Human Festival, The UK’s only national festival of the humanities: www.beinghumanfestival.org