Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest updateReview by Ruth A Symes Written in the colourful and thought-provoking style of Gregory’s historical fiction, this stupendous compendium of the last 900 years of women’s history in England has much to offer the family historian. Injustice against women goes back at least as... Continue Reading →
Women in World War Two by Collette Drifte
Book Review by Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update This book gives vibrant voice to those women – many of them under the age of 20 when they first joined up – who entered the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service), Women’s Auxiliary Airforce (WAAF), and Women’s Royal... Continue Reading →
A History of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: Brownies, Rainbows and WAGGGS by Julie Cook
Book Review by Ruth A Symes Link to buy my books Amazon.co.uk: Ruth A Symes: books, biography, latest update If your ancestor was a Girl Guide at any time since the inception of the movement in 1910, this book will enable you vividly to imagine what that experience would have been like. Cook skilfully interweaves Guiding... Continue Reading →