![]() ![]() Professor David Stevenson - International History Department 7EGM/1/2: Diary of Eunice Guthrie Murray, volume 2, 1908-1914Įunice G Murray was a suffragist and author who joined the Women's Freedom League with her mother and sister prior to the start of the war, and by 1913 had become president of the Scottish wing. Its paintings and verse show how poetry served - far more than it would today - to vent the feelings of a generation too often misrepresented as tight-lipped. Closer to home, the Misses Scott cared for Belgian refugees in Tunbridge Wells, and an album presented in gratitude figures in the collection. The Scottish Women's Hospital organization, in which Vera Holme did service, worked in Macedonia, feeding Serbian children and carrying out surgical operations. A rare selection illustrates women's war work in Germany other photographs show British women driving ambulances, painting stations, making soldiers' bread, and laying wreaths on battlefield graves. Their coverage ranges from anxieties raised by prostitution on the Western Front, to case histories of the symptoms of shell shock. Other items here shed light on wartime conditions and on the conflict's impact on those caught up in it. The battle of ideas was not fought just with prose, however, and the disturbing images of atrocities by the Dutch caricaturist Louis Raemaekers, commissioned for British propaganda, expressed the conviction held by many that Germany was an outlaw from civilized standards. Morel, the founder of the Union of Democratic Control, condemned the secret diplomacy that in his view had committed Britain without consultation. Conversely the International Congress of Women made a bold attempt to mediate, while E. Whereas Professor Sir Herbert Warren from Oxford asserted Britain's superiority over Germany in penning martial verse, Christabel Pankhurst and Millicent Garrett Fawcett - respectively from the radical and the mainstream branches of the women's suffrage movement - gave reasoned defences of Britain's participation, which a French pamphlet none the less berated as too little and too late. They display some initial reactions, for example by the Dunbartonshire diarist Eunice Guthrie Murray, who foresaw that the struggle would be long. They showcase these collections' value for researchers, and will hold the attention of anyone seeking to recapture the mood of 1914-18. The items in this online exhibition come from the LSE archives and from the Women's Library, recently relocated to the British Library of Political and Economic Science. Many more - often women - helped the war effort behind the lines or in Britain, including in government. Tawney) and 46 students and staff would be killed in action. Although the School was characteristically divided over the rights and wrongs of the conflict, hundreds of alumni did military service (as well as academics such as Clement Attlee, Hugh Dalton, and R. When the First World War began, the LSE had been established for two decades as a metropolitan centre for research and teaching in the social sciences, with a tradition of public engagement. ![]()
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