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Historical views on current issues

• Safety and numbers – the history of migration, refugees and the UK ‡ 

• Two forward, one back: women’s fight for equal pay in the UK ‡ 

• Women and the Vote ‡  

 

First World War

• Women on the Home Front in WW1

• Women, the vote and the war to end all wars*

• WW1, women and sport

• War Artists in WW1

 

Second World War

• Making Do -- Wartime fashions 1939 - 45 **

• Women in World War Two - the home front **

• Women in World War Two - the services; WRNS, WAAF, ATS **

• Lady Denman and the formation of the WI *

• Women’s Land Army**

• Stella Reading and Women’s Voluntary Services**

• War Artists in WW2

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Fashion

• Putting on the Ritz:  1920s and 30s fashions **

• Making Do -- Wartime fashions 1939 - 45 **

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Medical

• Militant medics – doctors and the fight for women’s suffrage ‡

• Doctors on the home front in WW2**

• Expecting the unexpected -- public health in WW1 and WW2 ‡

• Doctors and polar exploration ‡

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Foundling Hospital and Georgian England

• Thomas Coram and the Foundling Hospital

• Building Bloomsbury 

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Polar Exploration

• Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance expedition*