Susan, originally from Glasgow, lives in Otley, Yorkshire. She married her first husband in 1971 and was widowed less than a year later, while six months pregnant with their daughter. Susan lost her war widows’ pension when she remarried in 1989. She talks about her early life, her struggles as a young wife and widow, her second marriage, and her fight to have her pension reinstated. Read More …
Kate, who lives in Scotland but grew up in Stockport, talks about her training and work as a nurse, her life with her first husband, Mike, her remarriage seven years later, and her status as one of the approximately three hundred women to whom the government refuses the reinstatement of their war widows pension because of their remarriage. Read More …
This film tells the story of the War Widows’ Quilt and the War Widows’ Stories project. Made by John Felix in November 2019 and filmed at The Queen’s House, Greenwich, where the quilt was first exhibited, it captures the feelings Read More …
9 January 2020 Research Institute for Literature & Cultural History. Liverpool John Moores University. Since its first introduction as a component of the Research Excellence Framework (REF), impact, its (im)measurability, and its role as an indicator of research quality in Read More …
On Armistice Day 2019, Will Davies visited us at the first ever exhibition of the War Widows’ Quilt at The Queen’s House, Greenwich, where it was installed from 7-11 November 2019. Will spoke to representatives of the War Widows’ Association Read More …
On 9 November 2019, the Daily Express devoted a double-page spread to the first-ever exhibition of the War Widows’ Quilt at the Queen’s House, Greenwich. Giles Sheldrick, Chief Reporter, interviewed women who contributed to the quilt, representatives of our partner Read More …
Download this press release as a pdf. From 7–11 November 2019, The Queen’s House, Greenwich, will host the first ever exhibition of the War Widows’ Quilt. Made from armed forces shirts by over ninety war widows and their family members, Read More …
This exercise is part of the War Widows’ Quilt, celebrating the lives and stories of war widow in word and stitch. Is there a poem or song that helps tell a bit of your story? Perhaps you have written a Read More …
This exercise is part of the War Widows’ Quilt, which celebrate the lives and stories of war widows in word and stitch. The idea is to commemorate you. Your poems and pockets will join those of many other war widows from Read More …
War Widows’ Stories, in partnership with the War Widows’ Association of Great Britain and arthur+martha, warmly invite you to our third final arts and poetry workshop in which you will be able to contribute to the War Widows’ Quilt, which Read More …
