Remembering & Writing Women’s Lives

Monday, 10th February 2014

Staffordshire Archive Service is really pleased to see that one of its volunteers,  Elizabeth Walker, will be speaking at a conference to be held at The National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas on Saturday 15th March 2014.  The title of the day is ‘Remembering and Writing Women’s Wartime Lives’.

Elizabeth will be giving a paper on a collection of letters held at Staffordshire Record Office D5788 that belonged to Lois Turner (1897-1967) a young woman who lived in Stone.

The paper will be focused on the following theme:

‘During the First World War, Lois Turner, like many domestically focussed women, contributed to the war-effort with a range of what may seem to be unspectacular activities including:  helping out at a soldier’s Christmas Party and writing letters to a number of young men who had enlisted in the armed forces. The letters she received from her correspondents are now deposited at the Staffordshire Record Office. Using these letters, this talk will suggest that wartime letters are an invaluable source to increase our understanding of everyday life during wartime’.

For more details see WHN March 2014 writing