Changes at home
‘Life has begun to look more serious.’
Diary of Eirene Champney, aged 17, 31st December 1914
Before the outbreak of war attitudes towards women were shifting as suffragettes demanded the vote. Then war came, and women’s lives changed forever. In Bristol, as elsewhere, women took on new roles, from policing the streets to nursing the wounded.
Other people were physically on the move. Thousands of refugees came to Bristol, as did hundreds of Prisoners of War. Even some of the most vulnerable Bristolians were moved out of the city to make way for wounded soldiers.
Before the outbreak of war attitudes towards women were shifting as suffragettes demanded the vote. Then war came, and women’s lives changed forever. In Bristol, as elsewhere, women took on new roles, from policing the streets to nursing the wounded.
Other people were physically on the move. Thousands of refugees came to Bristol, as did hundreds of Prisoners of War. Even some of the most vulnerable Bristolians were moved out of the city to make way for wounded soldiers.