War Office

As the Great War rolled on ES found herself more and more of a pacifist. During her very few holidays from writing and from trying to keep the suffrage cause alive, she took jobs...

A group including Davis was eventually sent to the Barrack Hospital at Scutari. There, however, they were given no work to do beyond mending and sorting linen. Davis describes her impatience at the lack...

In April 1862 FN had also engaged in correspondence with the War Office and with Gladstone to express her disapproval of any attempts to regulate prostitution. Earlier, in 1860, while a government commission pondered providing...

AB 's novel Lord Raingo created a commotion because the characters were based on real people in the Ministry of Information run by the War Office .

During the summers RF and her husband would travel together through the European countries which Arthur McGrath 's War Office job made his particular concern. Seeing Europe between the wars was, wrote RF ,...

Her husband's death left IK with only seven shillings in the world, and arrears of (half)-pay which the War Office never paid. She was later proud of bringing up her family by her own...