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11th March 2024

To celebrate International Women's Day this year, Liss-Llewellyn has a small but fascinating on-line exhibition entitled Women at War looking at representations of women's war work. Canal Girls (1944) by Evan Charlton (1904-84) is a cosily domestic scene on a barge which belies the important work these 'Idle Women' carried out. ('Our' author Emma Smith was one, and wrote a book about the experience.)

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