Question

Describe how the war changed the everyday lives of women and talk about their experiences of war at home. You need to include descriptions and explanations to be able to say why this was an important moment in British social history.

Answer 1

Explanation:

Fear, grief, sorrow: these are the overriding emotions of war. For men, women, and children confined to the home front between 1914 and 1918, exhilarating surges of patriotic energies and the evaporation of many restraints were fleeting thrills when set against the loss of loved ones. Children woke to find that their fathers had left for distant battlefields while they slept. Three hundred thousand never saw their fathers again; 160,000 wives received the dreaded telegram informing them that their husbands had been killed. Countless others discovered the meaning of suffering.