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WWI Wednesday: After Dark in London
Karl Kingsley Kitchen (1883-1935) was an American journalist and man-about-town who wrote witty columns for various New York newspapers chronicling his travels, his meals, and his famous supper party...
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WWI Wednesday: The Women Who Drove Ambulances on the Western Front
A VAD Motor Driver© IWM (Art.IWM ART 3824) The WWI Wednesday series, which I began to I present a peek at the WWI we don’t normally see in pop culture, has resulted in just as many surprises for me as...
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WWI Wednesday: Becoming a VAD
Oona Chaplin in The Crimson Field, an upcoming original BBC drama about nurses in WWI. [Source] Thanks to Vera Brittain and her memoir, Testament of Youth, the most enduring female image of WWI is the...
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WWI Wednesday: Homecoming of the Harlem Hellfighters
Return of the 15th New York (369th Infantry) Shown swinging up Lenox Avenue, New York City, Where they Received a Royal Welcome. No band of heroes returning from war ever were accorded such a welcome...
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WWI Wednesday: Housekeeping in Wartime
The National Kitchens were opened during World War One to provide affordable, nutritious meals for war workers and poorer people © BBC This earlier post on rationing in wartime discusses the change in...
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WWI Wednesday: Outfitting the VAD
New VADs destined for military hospitals joined a detachment for one month’s probation, and if suitable, they signed a contract for a further six months service, receiving £20 per annum and a uniform...
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WWI Wednesday: Pipes, Cigarettes, & Cigars!
The Edwardian era saw the beginnings of the glamorous (for women) and rugged (for men) image of smoking later promulgated in advertisements and cinema. The convention of an after-dinner glass of port...
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WWI Wednesday: When Books Went to War
When the United States entered the war in 1917, the president of the American Library Association (ALA) appointed a War Service Committee, where there was a unanimous decision to supply library...
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WWI Wednesday: The Care of the Dead
Gardeners of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps tending British soldiers’ graves in France, 1918 [The WAACs] look after the gallant dead, who are lying in the soil for which they fought. Between the...
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WWI Wednesday: Wheatless Wednesdays, Meatless Mondays, or the American Home...
A few years ago, we discussed rationing in Britain during WWI. When the United States entered the war in April 1917, they had a model for conserving and preserving the foodstuffs and the Food...
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