Home Fires: The Story of the Women’s Institute in the Second World War - Julie Summers
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Historical Non-Fiction History Britain WWII PBS
Shared by:SophieNYC
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Read by Juliet Mills
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:09-15-15
Soon to be a PBS Masterpiece series starring Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Cranford)
Away from the frontlines of World War II, in towns and villages across Great Britain, ordinary women were playing a vital role in their country’s war effort. As members of the Women’s Institute, an organization with a presence in a third of Britain’s villages, they ran canteens and knitted garments for troops, collected tons of rosehips and other herbs to replace medicines that couldn’t be imported, and advised the government on issues ranging from evacuee housing to children’s health to postwar reconstruction. But they are best known for making jam: from produce they grew on every available scrap of land, they produced twelve million pounds of jam and preserves to feed a hungry nation.
Home Fires, Julie Summers’s fascinating social history of the Women’s Institute during the war (when its members included the future Queen Elizabeth II along with her mother and grandmother), provides the remarkable and inspiring true story behind the upcoming PBS Masterpiece series that will be sure to delight fans of Call the Midwife and Foyle’s War. Through archival material and interviews with current and former Women’s Institute members, Home Fires gives us an intimate look at life on the home front during World War II.
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This post has 4 comments
October 12th, 2015
This is a great show. Thanks for the upload.
October 13th, 2015
I was in the Women’s Institute in the Second World War.
Except now I remembember it wasn’t the Second World War - it was the grand final.
And it wasn’t the Women’s Institute, it was the pub.
Ah, memories.
October 13th, 2015
Thank you Sophie. You post some wonderful books!
January 14th, 2016
Thank you for what should be a good listen.
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