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women’s roles WWII

A mixture of courage and abandon

At the moment I am working on Imogen Holst’s personal administrative files and among the routine documents that you might find in any personal collection – the tax returns, the bank statements, the subscriptions to societies – are reports Imogen filed while working as a ‘Music Traveller’ during WWII. In 1940 Imogen was one of…

May 5, 2016 in female musicians, music in wartime, Twentieth-century British music, women's roles WWII.

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Hannah Eyles, Project Archivist

Archives Arts and Crafts movement cataloguing archives female composers female musicians folk music music in wartime musicology opera Personal archives philosophy Socialism Twentieth-century British music Uncategorized women's roles WWII
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