‘The Women's Branch of the Commonwealth Relations Office’: the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women and the long life of empire migration

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Smith, Jean ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0444-1607 (2016) ‘The Women's Branch of the Commonwealth Relations Office’: the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women and the long life of empire migration. Women's History Review, 25 (4). pp. 520-535. ISSN 0961-2025

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Abstract

This article concerns the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women from its formation in 1919 to its closure in 1964 upon the withdrawal of the Treasury grant that provided the bulk of its funding. Describing the imperial network of voluntary organisations and migrants, through which the Society operated, it shows continuity in its activities, geographical remit and personnel from the interwar period despite efforts, especially by the 1960s, to reframe the Society's imperial mission with the rhetoric of Commonwealth and development. It highlights the persistence of imperial institutions and networks after the Second World War.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
Related URLs:	https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publ...
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	03 Mar 2021 00:43
Last Modified:	23 Oct 2022 02:15
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/79359
DOI:	10.1080/09612025.2015.1114325

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