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Woman's Hour: Changing Woman's Lives 05 Feb 14

Thu, 6 Feb 14

From BBC Radio 4: How the war shaped the lives of a generation of women. While women in their thousands volunteered for war service and the number of women employed went up by more than a million by 1918, what power did women really achieve outside the home and how lasting¹ was it? Joining Jenni Murray, Baroness² Shirley Williams on the war's impact on the generation of her mother, Testament³ of Youth author Vera Brittain; writer and broadcaster Kate Adie; Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College; and cultural historian Professor Maggie Andrews, University of Worcester. We also hear from Dr Jennian Geddes about the work of doctors Flora⁴ Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson who established and ran the only British army hospital staffed entirely⁵ by women, treating wounded soldiers. Part of World War One on the BBC. Discover more at bbc.co.uk/ww1