The Women of the Y
KathrynSunday, March 10, 2019
YMCA poster, 1918 ( source ) During the First World War up to 40% of the YMCA's staff on the Western Front were female. It is likely...
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Showing posts with label YMCA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YMCA. Show all posts
'Serving the Mind, Body and Spirit: The YMCA's First World War Mission
KathrynSunday, February 10, 2019
This article is taken from a five minute presentation I gave to the Oxford History Graduate Network on 6th February 2018. It gives a brief o...
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'This Will Make Me Be a Christian if Anything Will': WE Rix with the YMCA
KathrynSaturday, February 02, 2019
Sketches at Gallipoli, by Leslie Hore ( NSW PXE 702 ) In the summer of 1915, Wilton Rix, a Congregationalist minister from Oxted in ...
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'The Chief Festival of the Home': Wartime Christmas with the YMCA
KathrynSunday, December 23, 2018
There is no doubt that the four Christmasses during the First World War were exceptional. There could hardly be 'peace and goodwill&#...
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DPhil Diaries Three: Introducing My Research
KathrynMonday, November 05, 2018
Since beginning my PhD course just over a month ago (time's flying already!) I've been asked a number of times what my specific rese...
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The Best Service in Unusual Conditions: The YMCA at Gallipoli
KathrynSunday, October 28, 2018
At the outbreak of the First World War the YMCA was already a global organisation, with work extending across the British Empire. Late-n...
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The Reninghelst YMCA
KathrynSunday, October 07, 2018
The YMCA's hut at Reninghelst was typical of many across the Western Front. A small village behind the lines in the Ypres Salient, Renin...
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Huts by Name, but not by Nature
KathrynSaturday, January 20, 2018
The war work of the YMCA and similar associations (Church Army, Salvation Army, etc) quickly became known as "hutwork". The rea...
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