Neil Storey is a graduate of the University of East Anglia. He has written numerous books covering a variety of social and military history topics. He has his own extensive archive, has worked on a number of television documentaries as historical consultant and regularly gives presentations and lectures for both academic and social audiences, at venues including the Imperial War Museum (Duxford). Neil also devised and writes the ‘Ancestors at Work’ articles published in the monthly Family Tree Magazine.Molly Housego has amassed her own archive of photographs and documents reflecting the changing role, costume and depiction of women from Early Modern Britain to the early Twentieth Century. She has made a specialised study of the role of women in the First and Second World Wars and lectures at the Imperial War Museum ‘First World War Uncovered’ events.

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• Introduction /Nursing Services /Munitionettes and Women War Workers /On the Land /In Uniform /Demob and Legacies /Further Reading /Index