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Tag:World War II

Celebrating Women of the Inland Waterways

Kate Saffin March 27, 2025
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March is the month when we celebrate International Women’s Day all over the world. We decided to have International Women’s Week so earlier in the month posted for 7 days on Facebook to celebrate some of the many women who made the canals the incredible place they are now. International Women’s Day (IWD) has been around since 1911, celebrating women’s achievements and promoting equality. Since then women have worked or volunteered on the canals on a par with men but […]

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We couldn’t have done it without you

Heather Wastie January 3, 2018
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Happy New Year from team Alarum! We’re currently looking ahead to touring plans for 2018 (more information shortly – or keep up to date with progress by browsing the rest of our shiny new website), and we’ve also been reflecting on the past year. It’s been an adventure and as ever we’re very grateful for your support and continued interest in the Idle Women project – we couldn’t have done it without you! In 2017 our ambitious plan, to recreate […]

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BBC Countryfile

Heather Wastie November 13, 2017
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BBC Countryfile have been interested in featuring the work of ‘The Idle Women’ for some time now. They contacted Canal & River Trust a while back and the Trust put the researcher in touch with us. The first discussions came to nothing, but when they contacted us again with an idea for their Remembrance Sunday edition, it all looked more promising. They said they wanted to film on the Grand Union Canal somewhere in the West Midlands. After a little […]

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