![]() ![]() The book focuses on several women who were members. ![]() ![]() Personally, I felt that our current “austerity” in Britain amounts to an insignificance by comparison, and that society today could learn a huge lesson from these women’s experiences and how they managed to “make do and mend”. Julie Summers is an English author, historical consultant and writer, best known for the book Jambusters. It shows a dedication by ordinary women to make the best of what were extremely difficult circumstances, such as housing evacuees at short notice whilst continuing with the austerity imposed by severe rationing of food, clothing and petrol. Following the lives of some NFWI members through their diaries and personal communications gives a realism that would be difficult to conjure from history books. Not only does it cover the contributions made by members of the National Federation of Women’s Institute which are well known by many, but it also encompasses all the extra tasks they undertook during a time when they had to take on the role of absent men folk, as well as government initiatives for which there was little reward. Julie Summers is the author of Jambusters: the story of the Womens Institute in the Second World War, which inspired ITVs 2015 hugely successful drama Home Fires, now into a second series. ![]() Jambusters: The Story of the Women’s Institute in the Second World War In her book Jambusters, Julie Summers considers that the jam-making of 1939, which was so efficiently and speedily carried out, showed how the WI could. ![]()
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