All films from the Midlands’ Women’s History Network conference on 5 March 2016 are now available online via the Women’s History Network West Midlands youTube channel.

The films include a 5-minute round-up of the event, and each of the day’s presentations:

‘The Kitchen is the Key to Victory’: Women, Food and the Great War

• Professor Karen Hunt – University of Keele

Everybody’s talking about food: food and women’s magazines in the First World War

• Jennifer Doyle – Kings College, University of London

Everybody’s Business: Film, Food & Victory in the First World War

• Dr Stella Hockenhull- University of Wolverhampton

Researching Home, Food and Family: Panel Discussion and Q&A

• Professor Maggie Andrews  -University of Worcester and Voices of War and Peace Community Engagement Centre lead on Gender and the Home Front
• Susanne Atkin – independent researcher participating in WW1 in the Vale (HLF-funded project)
• Julia Letts – Oral Historian and project co-ordinator for The Great Blackberry Pick (HLF-funded project)
• Dr Janis Lomas – Independent Researcher
• Chaired by  Jenni Waugh – Community History consultant and project co-ordinator for WW1 in the Vale (HLF-funded project)

Filmed for us by James McDonald of Clear Picture Productions.