by WRA Admin | Nov 13, 2025 | Archives, WRA Blog
I recently chanced upon an interesting article, whilst I was undertaking some research for an unrelated enquiry to our archive. The article in question was in The White Ribbon magazine of February 1939 and talked of a picture of the head Christ that was hanging in the...
by WRA Admin | Nov 6, 2024 | 1924, Archives, Temperance, WRA Blog
The British Women’s Temperance Association (BWTA) was founded in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1876, at the height of the Temperance Movement. The Temperance Movement declined into the twentieth century due to societal changes especially around the First and Second World...
by WRA Admin | Apr 3, 2024 | Archives, White Ribbon, WRA Blog
The British Women’s Temperance Association (BWTA) was founded in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1876, at the height of the temperance movement in the 19th century. The organisation still exists today as the White Ribbon Association. Although we no longer promote total...
by WRA Admin | Oct 26, 2023 | Archives, History, Temperance, WRA Blog
I have recently been looking through the early Annual Reports of the British Women’s Temperance Association, as we are planning to have these digitised for research purposes. This provided me with a good opportunity to take a look at the numbers of branches and...
by WRA Admin | Jun 12, 2023 | Lady Henry Somerset, Our Village Life, St Marys Home Reigate, WRA Blog
We have recently acquired a finely illustrated book for our archive collection. ‘Our Village Life’ was published in 1884 and was written and illustrated by Lady Henry Somerset. In the preface she explains how the sale of the book would help to support a home she had...
