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23 October 2017

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An exhibition has just opened in Bradford called No Man’s Land – Women’s Photography and the First World War which runs until the end of December. These are VADs in Abbeville in 1919. We claim that Cicely Hamilton wrote William – an Englishman in a tent but maybe she in fact lived in one of these huts. There is something extraordinarily immediate and atmospheric about this photograph. Soon it will be time for our First World War nurse’s uniform to have a few weeks in the shop window.

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