A History of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: Brownies, Rainbows and WAGGGS

A History of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts: Brownies, Rainbows and WAGGGS charts the evolution of the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from its early days as a movement started before WW1 right through to the modern day. With real life interviews with Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from their 90s down to young children, this book looks at what being a Girl Guide has meant through the ages up to the present day. With dramatic and often emotional stories of what it was like to be an evacuated Brownie in the Second World War, a disabled Girl Guide and with tales of girls’ heroism throughout the two great wars both in the UK and the United States, this book extols the Guiding and Scouting movement as one that has evolved with women and girls’ rights and its hopes for the future.
AUTHOR: Julie Cook is an author and journalist for national newspapers and magazines. Her first book The Titanic and the City of Widows it left Behind was published by Pen and Sword in 2020. Julie lives with her husband and children in Hampshire, England.
32 b/w illustrations