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"Making History"
BBC Radio 4, 2nd December 2008

Snapshots from the Home League

Listen to programme extract

In 1915 the YMCA started a scheme which drew on the skills of amateur photographers. They were enlisted to take photos of the families of men serving overseas and these were then sent to them as a morale booster. The scheme ran during the Second World War too.

It was Making History Pat Williams who drew our attention to this scheme because she has an album with material relating to it. Pat wants to give it to an archive that would ensure its safekeeping for future generations.

Making History contacted the Special Collections Department at the University of Birmingham which looks after the archives of the YMCA. Archivist Philippa Bassett explained that they are keen to receive more material.