THE stories of women who endured the First World War will be told.
A new exhibition has opened at Bridport Museum.
Home Front, Home, commemorates 100 years since the end of the war and explores how it affected women in Bridport by telling the stories of seven individuals.
It explains the challenges they faced and looks at how they had to adapt to maintain a resilient Home Front.
The exhibition has been researched by a group of Bridport Museum’s volunteers led by Professor Karen Hunt of Keele University.
Research volunteer Alison Jackson-Bass said: “The exhibition shines a light on the lives of these women, at a time when society was transformed by war. I would like to think that visitors gain an insight into the hardships that these women faced, and a sense of what it was like to live at a time when there was such a marked inequality of pay between male and female workers.”
Museum director, Emily Hicks, added: “This exhibition is an exhibition with a difference. Visitors are invited to sit in the parlour that we have created and immerse themselves in the lives of these women. We invite visitors to sit, read and consider the challenges they faced.”
The exhibition has been supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund First World War Centenary grants scheme.
Entrance to the museum and exhibition is free but donations are welcome to help support the museum’s work as a registered charit
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