by WRA Admin | Jul 16, 2021 | Bournemouth, Massingberd, Temperance Hotels, Uncategorised, WRA Blog
All things temperance are never far from my mind, as my other half found out during our first weekend break away since the last Covid lockdown. I feel very fortunate to look after the archives of the British Women’s Temperance Association (BWTA) here at the White...
by WRA Admin | Jul 12, 2021 | Archives, National Fitness Campaign, Olympics, Wellbeing, WRA Blog
The UK is facing a fitness drive following lock down and Covid. In the year of the Olympics in Japan and the Euros (Football tournament) 2021, we take a step back in time and look at a previous ‘Fitness Campaign’ that the UK Government ran in the 1930’s. In July...
by WRA Admin | Jun 9, 2021 | Duxhurst, Growing for Wellbeing Week, Horticulture, Lady Henry Somerset, WRA Blog
National Growing for Wellbeing Week 7th – 13th June 2021, ‘is a celebration of the magic that growing your own produce can do for your wellbeing, both physically and mentally.’ You might imagine that ‘Growing for Wellbeing’ is a modern concept; that...
by WRA Admin | May 25, 2021 | Band of Hope, Margaret Baker, National Share a Story Month, Temperance, WRA Blog
May is National Share a Story Month 2021, which is ‘an annual celebration of the power of storytelling and story sharing….’ With this in mind we take a look at a small collection of books in our archive. This might spark some happy childhood memories of bedtime...
by WRA Admin | May 14, 2021 | 1901, Archives, National Children's Day, WRA Blog
Sunday 16th May 2021 is National Children’s Day – #NCDUK2021 – which is ‘all is all about the importance of a healthy childhood, and how we need to protect the rights and freedoms of children in order to ensure that they can grow into happy, healthy...
by WRA Admin | May 6, 2021 | Awareness, Drug Law, Drugs, WRA Blog
May 2021 will mark 50 years of the current UK drug policy ‘The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971’. Legislation that: Aimed to bring drugs under control in the UK. To bring a complete ban in the possession as well as the manufacturing, supply, export, import of controlled drugs...
