Celebrating our summer exhibition, Lee Miller: A Woman at War, Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum presents an evening with historian and author Dr Kate Vigurs.
Fresh from Chalke Valley History Festival and We Have Ways Fest, Kate will provide a two part-talk, starting with a look at the work of the trailblazing women, like Lee Miller, who covered the events of the Second World War as they happened.
Breaking glass ceilings was far from the minds of the female war correspondents who reported back on the events that swept across the world during the 1940s. From Claire Hollingworth, who witnessed the invasion of Poland, to Lee Miller bathing in Hitler’s bathtub, discover the amazing, daring, and sometimes dark world of the war correspondents.
In part two, Moondrop France, discover women’s journey from recruit to secret agent, training for danger and dropping behind enemy lines into Occupied France. A gripping tale of wartime espionage and the female agents of SOE with History’s Maid.
