World War II Army Flight Nurses – 2 Feb 2020
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 12 Jan 2020
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 22 Dec 2019
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 1 Dec 2019
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 10 Nov 2019
In Memoriam World War II Army Flight Nurses Jenevieve (Jenny) Boyle Silk, who died in June 2017, was the last living of the 25 World War II US Army flight…
British Women Organists – 20 Oct 2019
Women Organists in Victorian England: What Did They Wear? After I had presented a paper about women organists in nineteenth-century England at an organ conference in Oxford, England several years…
British Women Organists – 28 Sep 2019
‘Ladies Not Eligible’?: Female Church Organists in Nineteenth-Century England Part 2 In my previous blog (8 Sep 2019) I explored the ‘lady organist issue’, perpetuated in nineteenth-century British newspapers and…
British Women Organists – 8 Sep 2019
‘Ladies Not Eligible’?: Female Church Organists in Nineteenth-Century England Part 1 On 8 April 1865 the Musical Standard carried an announcement by the vestry of Saint John Southwark inviting ‘application…
British Women Organists – 18 Aug 2019
Women Organists in Victorian England: What Did They Wear? After I had presented a paper about women organists in nineteenth-century England at an organ conference in Oxford [UK] several years…
World War II Army Flight Nurses – 20 Jul 2019
From Chickens to Flying: Lauretta M. Schimmoler and the Aerial Nurse Corps of America Thanks to Robert E. Skinner’s meticulous research from the 1980s, we know much about the life…