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Category: Women’s lives through war and change

How a London debutante found herself carrying a recruitment placard around Hyde Park in 1940

October 8, 2026 cheryl Leave a comment

Women ambulance drivers WW2 The placard-carrying debutante was a young woman named June Spencer. June had joined the London Auxiliary…

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Posted in: Women’s lives through war and change Filed under: ambulance drivers ww2, historical fiction, research, women at war, women's fiction, world war 2, world war two, ww2

Prettying up your WW2 gas mask

August 13, 2026 cheryl

Prettying up your WW2 gas mask eased the burden of carrying these unwieldy boxes around. I was thinking over the…

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Posted in: Women’s lives through war and change Filed under: gas masks, historical fiction, historical research, women's fiction, ww2

St George’s Vestry VAD

April 8, 2026 cheryl

This scene about St George’s Vestry VAD (Voluntary Auxiliary Defence Forces) unit appeared in a draft of The Gift of…

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Posted in: Women’s lives through war and change Filed under: historical fiction, romance, The Gift of Belonging, VADS, Voluntary Auxiliary Defence, women's fiction, world war one

The Welcome

March 14, 2026 cheryl

The Welcome is a scene which appeared in a draft of The Gift of Belonging (Book 3 in The Wise…

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Posted in: Forest of Dean and River Severn history, folklore and myth, Women’s lives through war and change Filed under: historical fiction, vad NURSES, VADS, women's fiction, WW1

VAD nurses WW1

December 18, 2025 cheryl

Readers of The Herbalist’s Daughters (the standalone book 2 in The Wise Women series), might remember that one of the…

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Posted in: Women’s lives through war and change Filed under: historical fiction, historical research, nursing, romance, vad NURSES, VADS, women's fiction, world war one, WW1

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