Home Fires

This BBC series tells the story of British women’s war efforts through the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, a community-based organization for women in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, and New Zealand. The Institute served as a source of comfort and community for the women as their men left for war, many of them never to return. Set in a rural Cheshire community, the series provides viewers a snapshot into English life on the home front during the war.