About the Talk

The image of young evacuees standing on railway platforms with gas masks and cardboard suitcases has become iconic — but their stories have overshadowed those of the women whose domestic lives were transformed by the government evacuation scheme. In this talk, Prof Maggie Andrews explores how the care of evacuees became a significant yet unrecognised area of women's war work, and how this unprecedented interference in women's home lives had a lasting impact on ideas of femininity, domesticity and motherhood.

About the Speaker

Prof Maggie Andrews is a cultural historian whose work covers the social and cultural history of twentieth century Britain. A key focus of her research is domesticity and femininity, and she is the author of publications including a feminist history of the Women's Institute movement. Her most recent work explores domesticity and the Home Front in World War One and Two.

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Doors open at 2pm talk starts at 2.15pm Tickets £8..50 including teas and coffees.