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 | Jul 20, 2022 | Archives, Victorian, WRA Blog
Our current health campaign is ‘Summer Safety’, providing advice to ensure safety and fun in the sunshine, on holiday and at festivals. If you are lucky enough to be getting ready for an upcoming summer holiday, you might be in the middle of deciding what clothes to...
by WRA Admin | Feb 25, 2022 | Archives, Capuchin Friars, Father Mathew, Ireland, Temperance Crusade, Uncategorised, WRA Blog
The British Women’s Temperance Association (BWTA) archive includes a collection of glass lantern slides including an illustrated image of Father Theobald Mathew (right), an Irish Priest and teetotalist reformer and President of Cork Total Abstinence Society formed in...
by WRA Admin | Jan 28, 2022 | Archives, Birmingham Temperance Hall, Birmingham Temperance Society, WRA Blog
Alongside our archive collection of the British Women’s Temperance Association (BWTA), we also hold records for the Birmingham Temperance Society (BTS), dating back to the formation of the society in 1830. Members of one temperance organisation were often linked to...
by WRA Admin | Dec 2, 2021 | Archives, HSE, Match Factory, Salvation Army, WRA Blog
I can’t quite believe that we are already into December, yet here we are with Christmas on the horizon. I thought it might be interesting to take a jump backwards in time and have a look what was being reported during the month of December in some of the old...
