After a brief break, join our fully vaccinated podcast to learn about Violette Reine Elizabeth Szabo (1921 –  1945).  She was a British-French Special Operations Executive (SPY!) agent during the Second World War, part of the resistance against the Nazis. 

Violette would have turned 100 just a few weeks ago, had she lived and is one of only four women to have received the George Cross (an honour second only to the Victoria Cross) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR5rRFylR-4

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/behind-enemy-lines-with-violette-szabo-1896571/

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/violette-szabo/

https://www.neversuchinnocence.com/violette-szabo-commonwealth-war-graves-second-world-war 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/590530/I-m-selling-hero-mother-medals-tragic-brave-tale-live 

https://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/female-spys-war-medals-sell-at-auction-for-over-50000

Women and the French Army during the World Wars, 1914–1940 (ANDREW ORR) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1zxz0r0

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/womens_mobilization_for_war_france

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/home/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zxb8msg/revision/1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann%C3%A9es_folles

2 The Failure of the Demobilization Purge, 1919–1923 (pp. 42-75) https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1zxz0r0.6

https://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/women-19th-century-early-feminists#:~:text=Married%20women%20were%20reduced%20to,wives%20to%20obey%20their%20husbands.&text=The%20political%20structure%20of%20nineteenth,lag%20behind%20Britain's%20and%20America's.

Controversy: War-related Changes in Gender Relations: The Issue of Women’s Citizenship By Birgitta Bader-Zaar