Some Great War soldiers transgressed masculine gender norms by dreaming of being women.
Tag: WWI
Naming & Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During WWI
In 1918 over 100 women were convicted for infecting a member of the armed forces with VD.
Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916
Julia Laite The world has just commemorated the 100th annivesary of the beginning of theĀ First World War. While most historians have come to categorize the war as, in the words of Richard Evans, ‘the seminal catastrophe of the entire period’, ideologically driven government officials and some military historians insist that […]