How couples maintained their relationships in WW1 - Episode 2

How couples maintained their relationships in WW1 - Episode 2

The First World War turned many marriages upside down.  Couples were separated for extended periods for months or even years.

​Letters and cards provided the only way of maintaining relationships.

​Historian Hayley Carter of the University of Worcester follows correspondence between two married couples as they work to maintain their relationships.

Acknowledgements:

  • Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service.
  • Full of hope and Fear. The Great war letters of an Oxford family. Oxford University Press.

Keywords: Worcestershire, Women, World War I

With:

Hayley Carter

In: World War 1, Worcestershire, Women,

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