{"id":32,"date":"2015-01-05T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/?p=32"},"modified":"2015-02-09T11:56:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:56:35","slug":"the-nice-girl-and-the-soldiers-life-of-a-vad-nurse-during-the-first-world-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/2015\/01\/05\/the-nice-girl-and-the-soldiers-life-of-a-vad-nurse-during-the-first-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nice Girl and the Soldiers: Life of a VAD Nurse during the First World War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>17 January 2014, 11am-12pm @ Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a teenager during the Great War, Mollie Ross of Gosforth worked as a VAD auxiliary nurse in the Northumberland War Hospital.\u00a0 Who did she encounter in the hospital? What kind of connection with the patients did she have? How would she have been affected by this contact?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/files\/2015\/01\/Diary-of-a-VAD-Nurse-Hatton-070115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33\" alt=\"Copyright \u00a9 Lindsay Davies\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/files\/2015\/01\/Diary-of-a-VAD-Nurse-Hatton-070115-233x300.jpg\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/files\/2015\/01\/Diary-of-a-VAD-Nurse-Hatton-070115-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/files\/2015\/01\/Diary-of-a-VAD-Nurse-Hatton-070115.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright \u00a9 Lindsay Davies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This talk will offer a tour through the pages of her autograph book, a small leather-bound volume she carried with her while she worked and in which the wounded servicemen shared their thoughts, jokes, poems and paintings. This book, with its fascinating and often moving content, offers a rich glimpse of Mollie&#8217;s exposure to war &#8211; and to life &#8211; as she entered 20th century adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>The talk will be delivered by Lindsay Davies, Mollie&#8217;s granddaughter, and is organised by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twmuseums.org.uk\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tyne &amp; Wear Archives and Museums<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are \u00a34, or free for students (student ID required). To book, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twmuseums.org.uk\/hatton-gallery\/whats-on\/events\/the-nice-girl-and-the-soldiers-life-of-a-vad-nurse-during-the-first-world-war.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hatton Gallery event page<\/a>\u00a0or email\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:marleen.vincenten@twmuseums.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Marleen Vincenten<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17 January 2014, 11am-12pm @ Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University As a teenager during the Great War, Mollie Ross of Gosforth worked as a VAD auxiliary nurse in the Northumberland War Hospital.\u00a0 Who did she encounter in the hospital? What kind of connection with the patients did she have? How would she have been affected by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/2015\/01\/05\/the-nice-girl-and-the-soldiers-life-of-a-vad-nurse-during-the-first-world-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Nice Girl and the Soldiers: Life of a VAD Nurse during the First World War<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/fww\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}