Jambusters (42 page)

18
 ‘What the WIs Did in 1944’, in
Home & Country
, January 1945

19
 
Home & Country
, June 1941

20
 ibid.

21
 Cox, p. 25

22
 ibid., p. 16

23
 Oxfordshire Federation of Women’s Institutes, 1942 Annual Report

24
 Cox, p. 14

25
 WI marketing subcommittee minutes, 2 July 1941

26
 ibid.

27
 Oxfordshire Federation minutes, April 1941

28
 ibid., May 1941

29
 Marketing Subcommittee minutes, May 1943

30
 
Good Housekeeping
, August 1941

CHAPTER 5

1
 
Home & Country
, July 1940

2
 ibid., September 1940

3
 ibid.

4
 ibid.

5
 ibid.

6
 Jeff Walden,
Dictionary of National Biography
, entry on C. H. Middleton

7
 ibid.

8
 Middleton, C. H.,
Digging for Victory
, p. 5

9
 ibid., p. 18

10
 ibid., pp. 35–6

11
 ibid., p. 136

12
 
Home & Country
, December 1939

13
 Broad, Richard and Suzie Fleming (eds),
Nella Last’s War
, 15 September 1941

14
 Hookwood WI log book

15
 Broadcast by Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, reproduced in
Home & Country
, October 1939

16
 Barham WI Annual Report 1944

17
 
Home & Country
, July 1941

18
 ibid., December 1942

19
 Oxfordshire Federation minutes 1941

20
 
Dictionary of National Biography
, entry on Dr W. O. James

21
 Oxford Federation minutes 1941

22
 Elizabeth Hess, ‘Five Hundred Tons of Rose Hips for 1945’,
Home & Country
, August 1945

23
 W. King Wilson in
Home & Country
, July 1941

24
 Editorial in
Home & Country
, October 1941

25
 Letter from Mr Dawes to councils, 25 March 1942

26
 ibid.

27
 ibid.

28
 ibid.

CHAPTER 6

1
 McCall, Cicely,
Women’s Institutes
, p. 31

2
 
Home & Country
, November 1939

3
 ibid. December 1939

4
 Andrews, Maggie,
The Acceptable Face of Feminism
, p. 109

5
 Editorial,
Home & Country
, July 1940

6
 ibid.

7
 ibid.

8
 
Home & Country
, July 1940

9
 Lord Woolton, quoted in
Home & Country
, August 1940

10
 
Home & Country
, August 1940

11
 Letter in
Home & Country
, October 1939

12
 
Home & Country
, January 1941

13
 Lord Woolton to Lady Denman, 31 December 1940

14
 
Home & Country
, August 1940

15
 
The Times
, 24 March 1941

16
 Letter from Marion Hyde to Lady Denman, published in
Home & Country
, August 1940

17
 News from the Institutes,
Home & Country
, October 1940

18
 ibid.

19
 Letter from an East Kent WI member to the editor of
Home & Country
, November 1940

20
 ibid.

21
 
Home & Country
, December 1940

22
 McCall,
Women’s Institutes
, p. 34

23
 ibid., p. 35

24
 ibid., p. 35

25
 Cox,
Country Markets
, p. 20

26
 Bowman, Jennifer,
Redlynch WI: the War Years
(Redlynch Review, 2009)

27
 Oxfordshire Federation minute book, 1942

28
 ibid., p. 20

29
 
Home & Country
, June 1941

30
 Lord Woolton broadcast, 6 June 1941

31
 ibid.

32
 ibid.

33
 Donnelly (ed.), 18 July 1941, p. 103

34
 
Home & Country
, January 1942, p. 1

35
 ibid., March 1942

36
 ibid.

37
 Donnelly (ed.), 1 June 1941, p. 99

38
 
Home & Country
, October 1943

39
 ibid.

40
 ibid.

41
 ibid.

42
 Letter from a jam centre supervisor to
Home & Country
, January 1945

CHAPTER 7

1
 Letter from Mrs Hazelwood to Miss Farrer at the NFWI in September 1940

2
 From letter to all county chairmen from Miss Farrer, 4 September 1939

3
 P. G. Cambray and G. G. B. Briggs,
Red Cross & St. John: The Official Record of the Humanitarian Services of the War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, 1939–1947
, p. 9

4
 Gillies, Midge,
The Barbed Wire University
, p. 32

5
 Cambray and Briggs, p. 586

6
 Jenkins, Inez,
History of the Women’s Institute Movement of England and Wales
, p. 91

7
 Woods, Katharine, ‘Headington WI memoir’

8
 ibid.

9
 Donnelly (ed.)¸ 1 June 1941, p. 99

10
 Longmate, Norman,
How We Lived Then
, p. 246

11
 ibid., p.257

12
 Zweiniger-Bargielowska, p. 47

13
 Hansard HC Deb, 22 April 1943, vol. 388, cc1842–3W

14
 
Home & Country
, October 1941

15
 
Oxford Times
, July 1943 (not actually dated)

16
 Donnelly (ed.), 17 July 1940

17
 Letter from Mary Close, president of the Westbourne WI, to
Home & Country
, October 1939

18
 ‘News from Institutes’,
Home & Country
, February 1940

19
 Letter to
Home & Country
, E. Hastings-Ord, February 1940

20
 Miss M. Bowring, 4 March 1941,
Home & Country
, April 1941

21
 
Home & Country
, September 1942

22
 Letter to Miss Farrer, August 1942

23
 ibid.

24
 ibid.

25
 Donnelly (ed.), 18 November 1941, p.115

26
 
Home & Country
, October 1942

27
 ibid.

28
 Anne Stamper article 2003, ‘Country Women in Wartime’, paper delivered 2003

29
 Letter from Clementine Churchill to Mrs Roberts, Trefnant WI, February 1942

30
 Letter to institutes from county secretary, June 1943

31
 
Home & Country
, 1943

32
 Letter to county chairman from Edith Walker at NFWI, 29 March 1940

33
 ibid.

34
 Hampton, Janie,
How the Girl Guides Won the War
, p. 139

CHAPTER 8

1
 Mrs D. Blewitt to James Blewitt, 9 June 1941

2
 Lady Denman, message from our chairman,
Home & Country
, October 1939

3
 
Home & Country
, November 1939, p.400

4
 HM The Queen, speech to AGM, Albert Hall, 8 June 1943

5
 National Federation of Women’s Institutes personnel files

6
 
Games for Women’s Institutes
, 1941, p. 2

7
 ibid.

8
 McCall,
Women’s Institutes
, 1943, p. 16

9
 
Home & Country
, December 1939

10
 ibid.

11
 Audlem WI Minute Book, January 1941

12
 
Home & Country
, October 1940

13
 Donnelly (ed.), 15 November 1940, p. 67

14
 ibid., 28 May 1941, p. 98

15
 ibid., 21 March 1941, p. 86

16
 Lady Denman, 22 January 1940

17
 Tribute in
Home & Country
, January 1940

18
 
Home & Country
, October 1940

19
 ibid.

20
 Wright, Gertrude,
The First Thirty Years: Mobberley Women’s Institute
, p. 5

21
 Oxfordshire Federation AGM, February 1942

22
 Woods, Katharine, Memoirs of Headington WI, 1974

23
 
Home & Country
, April 1944

24
 ‘A Country Woman Looks About Her’,
Home & Country
, August 1940

25
 ibid.

26
 
Home & Country
, January 1941

27
 Wright,
The First Thirty Years
, p. 1728 Eileen Lloyd to the author, 3 March 2011

28
 
Home & Country
, March 1944

29
 ibid., October 1940

30
 ibid., July 1940

31
 Lady Tweedsmuir’s address, Oxfordshire Federation AGM 1943

32
 
Home & Country
, August 1940

33
 ibid., June 1942

34
 ibid., June 1944

35
 ibid.

CHAPTER 9

1
 Donnelly (ed.), 17 August 1944, p. 230

2
 
Home & Country
, May 1941

3
 ibid.

4
 ibid., August 1942from broadcast on 21 June 1942

5
 ibid., November 1944

6
 Letter from Mrs Walshe to
Home & Country
, September 1942

7
 ‘Managing an Earth Closet’ in
Home & Country
, August 1944

8
 ‘Turning on the Tap’ by Cicely McCall,
Home & Country
, May 1944

9
 ibid.

10
 ibid.

11
 
Home & Country
, November 1944

12
 ‘Turning on the Tap’

13
 24th AGM, Tuesday 8 June 1943

14
 ibid.

15
 
Home & Country
, June 1942

16
 ibid., January 1943

17
 ibid.

18
 ibid., September 1942

19
 ibid., July 1942

20
 Evidence for the Central Housing Advisory Committee’s Subcommittee on the Design of Dwellings, p. 1

21
 ibid.

22
 ibid.

23
 ibid.

24
 ibid., p. 2

25
 Education questionnaire 1943, p. 4

26
 Miss Nancy Tennant, NFWI conference on Post War Reconstruction in Europe

27
 NFWI conference on Post War Reconstruction in Europe

28
 ibid.

29
 ibid.

30
 Lady Denman message published in
Home & Country
, July 1944

31
 Donnelly (ed.), 8 May 1945, p. 98

32
 
Home & Country
, June 1945

33
 ibid.

34
 ibid., March 1946

35
 Norah C. James, ‘Back to Real Life’,
Woman’s Own
, January 1945, p. 15

36
 K. M. Catlin,
Home & Country
, June 1945

CHAPTER 10

1
 
Home & Country
, December 1939

2
 Wright,
The First Thirty Years
, p. 15

3
 Donnelly (ed.), 10 May 1945, p. 300

4
 ibid., 12 May 1945, p. 302

5
 Lady Brunner quoted in Goodenough,
Jam and Jerusalem
, p. 45

6
 A WI member, letter in
Home & Country
, October 1940

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Nella Last’s War
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Red Cross & St. John: The Official Record of the Humanitarian Services of the War Organisation of the British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem, 1939–1947
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Bows of Burning Gold
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Tarporley Then and Now
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The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
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The Day the War Ended: Voices and Memories from 1945
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Grace Hadow
(London: Oxford University Press, 1946)

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Mrs Milburn’s Diaries: An Englishwoman’s Day-to-Day Reflections 1939–1945
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Wartime Britain 1939–1945
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