A History of the Royal Navy: Women and the Royal Navy
As nurses, ‘Jenny Wrens', and above all as wives and mothers, women have quietly kept the Royal Navy afloat throughout history. From its earliest years, women maintained homes and families while men battled at sea, providing vital support behind the scenes. Later they also ran maritime businesses and worked as civilians in naval offices and dockyards. From 1884, women were able to serve as nurses in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service and, from 1917, they became members of the Women's Royal Naval Service. The outbreak of both world wars gave women special opportunities and saw the role of women as Wrens, nursing sisters, VADs and medics change and develop. In more recent times, the development of equal rights legislation has fundamentally changed naval life: women are now truly in the navy and do ‘men's jobs' at sea. Using previously-unpublished first-hand material, this is the first book to reflect all the diverse roles that women have played in Royal Navy services. Jo Stanley situates women's naval activities within a worldwide context of women who worked, travelled and explored new options. This book provides vital new perspectives on both women's military history and the wider history of women who desired to work on or near the sea.
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A History of the Royal Navy: Women and the Royal Navy
As nurses, ‘Jenny Wrens', and above all as wives and mothers, women have quietly kept the Royal Navy afloat throughout history. From its earliest years, women maintained homes and families while men battled at sea, providing vital support behind the scenes. Later they also ran maritime businesses and worked as civilians in naval offices and dockyards. From 1884, women were able to serve as nurses in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service and, from 1917, they became members of the Women's Royal Naval Service. The outbreak of both world wars gave women special opportunities and saw the role of women as Wrens, nursing sisters, VADs and medics change and develop. In more recent times, the development of equal rights legislation has fundamentally changed naval life: women are now truly in the navy and do ‘men's jobs' at sea. Using previously-unpublished first-hand material, this is the first book to reflect all the diverse roles that women have played in Royal Navy services. Jo Stanley situates women's naval activities within a worldwide context of women who worked, travelled and explored new options. This book provides vital new perspectives on both women's military history and the wider history of women who desired to work on or near the sea.
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A History of the Royal Navy: Women and the Royal Navy

A History of the Royal Navy: Women and the Royal Navy

by Jo Stanley
A History of the Royal Navy: Women and the Royal Navy

A History of the Royal Navy: Women and the Royal Navy

by Jo Stanley

Overview

As nurses, ‘Jenny Wrens', and above all as wives and mothers, women have quietly kept the Royal Navy afloat throughout history. From its earliest years, women maintained homes and families while men battled at sea, providing vital support behind the scenes. Later they also ran maritime businesses and worked as civilians in naval offices and dockyards. From 1884, women were able to serve as nurses in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service and, from 1917, they became members of the Women's Royal Naval Service. The outbreak of both world wars gave women special opportunities and saw the role of women as Wrens, nursing sisters, VADs and medics change and develop. In more recent times, the development of equal rights legislation has fundamentally changed naval life: women are now truly in the navy and do ‘men's jobs' at sea. Using previously-unpublished first-hand material, this is the first book to reflect all the diverse roles that women have played in Royal Navy services. Jo Stanley situates women's naval activities within a worldwide context of women who worked, travelled and explored new options. This book provides vital new perspectives on both women's military history and the wider history of women who desired to work on or near the sea.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780767567
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 01/30/2018
Series: A History of the Royal Navy
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.84(w) x 8.64(h) x 1.18(d)

About the Author

Dr Jo Stanley is a creative historian specialising in women's maritime history, including women pirates and captains. She is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Hull's Maritime Historical Studies Centre and runs the blog: http://genderedseas.blogspot.com Her book From Cabin ‘Boys' to Captains: 250 years of Women at Sea was one of the winners of the Mountbatten Maritime Literary Prize in 2016.

Table of Contents

List of Figures ix

List of Tables xiv

List of Colour Plates xv

Foreword by HKH The Princess Royal xvii

Series Foreword xviii

Acknowledgements xx

Introduction 1

1 'Assisting Behind the Scenes' - and More: 875-1884 19

2 The War Needs Veiled Warriors - in Navy Blue: 1884-1919 37

3 Wrens in World War I 53

4 Nursing in the Peacetime Navy: 1919-38 77

5 Naval Women Win World War II 85

6 Women Care for Wartime Patients: 1939-45 113

7 Struggling Seawards: The WRNS 1946-90 129

8 Women become Doctors and Men become Nurses: 1946-90 159

9 All in the Defence Medical Services Team: 1991 to Today 171

10 On towards Diversity and Inclusion: 1991 to Today 179

Appendices

1 Women and Naval Services: A Select Timeline 203

2 Finding Out More about Naval Services Women: Selected Reading 212

3 Filmography 223

4 Women in Perspective: Other Organisations 228

5 Heads of WRNS and QARNNS 231

Notes 237

Index 257

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