A review of the impact of women's military or wartime service in the aftermath of the First World War

这个博士项目将研究的长期影响，为英国在第一次世界大战期间的战争努力工作了参与妇女。虽然已经完成了许多关于妇女在战争期间的工作的研究，但还没有对这项工作如何影响她们以后的生活进行详细和全面的审查。它将着眼于妇女的战时经历如何改变了他们，他们如何反映自己的角色变化，以及如何影响他们的工作和生活的经验在两次世界大战期间及以后。因此，这项工作将投入到关于第一次世界大战后果的激烈辩论中，这场辩论目前正在学术界内外进行。特别是，IWM和曼彻斯特大学之间的合作，这个项目需要提供一个独特的机会，我的研究，使这场辩论的重大和独特的贡献。该研究项目旨在确定和探索第一次世界大战遗留问题中被忽视的一个方面，即英国妇女参与战争努力的战后影响。Susan Grayzel、Gail Braybon和Susan Kingsley-Kent的工作为这一领域的史学做出了重大贡献。然而，我的工作将动员迄今为止在IWM举行的很大程度上未开发的资源，特别是广泛收集的前服务妇女的期刊，由妇女辅助服务的老同志协会在1920年和1921年开始跟踪妇女的战时经验是如何构建和重建第一次世界大战后。通过对这些来源的仔细检查，本博士将致力于解决以下关键问题。老同志会的刊物在多大程度上保持了妇女战时服役的同志情谊，维护和扩大了战争时期建立的友谊网络？同样，当这些属性在妇女身上表面上不再受到社会的重视时，妇女在战时发展起来的技能和纪律在战后是如何被人们记住的？

This PhD project will study the long-term impact that working for the British war effort during World War One had on the women involved. Whilst many studies have been completed in relation to women's wok during the war, a detailed and comprehensive examination of how this work affected their lives afterwards has yet to be produced. It will look at how women's wartime experiences changed them, how they reflected on their changed roles, and how the experience influenced their work and lives in the inter-war period and beyond. As such, this work will feed into the lively debate about the aftermath of World War One that is currently on-going both within and beyond academia. In particular, the collaboration between the IWM and the University of Manchester which this project entails offers a unique opportunity for my research to make a significant and distinctive contribution to this debate. The research project aims to identify and explore a neglected aspect of the legacy of the First World War, namely the post-war impact of theparticipation of British women in the war effort. Work by Susan Grayzel, Gail Braybon and Susan Kingsley-Kent has contributed significantly to this historiography of this area. However, my work will mobilize hitherto largely untapped resources held at IWM, notably the extensive collection of journals of former servicewomen, started by the Old Comrades Associations of the women's auxiliary services in 1920 and 1921 to track the ways in which women's wartime experience was constructed and reconstructed after World War One. Through a close examination of these sources, this PhD will aim to engage with the following key questions. To what extent did the Old Comrades Association journals keep alive the camaraderie of women's wartime service and preserve and enlarge friendship networks established in the war period? Similarly, how were the skills and disciplines developed by servicewomen in wartime remembered post-war, when such attributes were, ostensibly, no longer socially valued in women?