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第一次世界大战期间为英国战争努力工作对参与其中的女性的长期影响。虽然已经完成了许多关于战争期间妇女炒锅的研究，但关于这项工作如何影响她们后来的生活的详细和全面的审查尚未产生。它将考察妇女的战争经历如何改变她们，她们如何反思她们改变的角色，以及这些经历如何影响她们在两次世界大战期间及以后的工作和生活。因此，这项工作将为目前学术界内外正在进行的关于第一次世界大战后果的激烈辩论提供支持。特别是，该项目所涉及的IWM和曼彻斯特大学之间的合作为我的研究提供了一个独特的机会，使我的研究能够对这场辩论做出重大而独特的贡献。该研究项目旨在确定和探索第一次世界大战遗留下来的一个被忽视的方面，即英国妇女参与战争努力的战后影响。苏珊·格雷泽尔、盖尔·布莱本和苏珊·金斯利-肯特的工作对这一地区的历史学做出了重大贡献。然而，我的工作将调动IWM迄今尚未开发的大部分资源，特别是由妇女辅助部队老同志协会于1920年和1921年开始收集的大量退役妇女期刊，以跟踪第一次世界大战后妇女战时经历的构建和重建方式。通过对这些来源的仔细研究，本博士将致力于解决以下关键问题。老同志会刊物在多大程度上保持了战时女兵的同志情谊，维护和扩大了战时建立的友谊网络？同样，战时女军人在战后发展的技能和纪律是如何被记住的，因为从表面上看，这些品质在女性身上不再受到社会重视。

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?