Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

149 1 Women’s Cricket (May 1939), 14; Liverpool Daily Post (21 September 1939); Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer (20 August 1940). 2 Macpherson, Suffragette’s Daughter , 125; Burnley Express (6 October 1945); Women’s Cricket (May 1946), 13. 3 WCA, Yearbook 1946, 9; The Cricketer 27:4 (1946), 107; Women’s Cricket (June 1947), 18; (July 1947), 38; Paulina 107 (1940), 1-3. 4 Royal Holloway College Letter (November 1939-November 1945); Gunnersbury: The First 50 Years ; WCA, Yearbook 1946, 7; Women’s Cricket (May 1946), 14; (June 1946), 22; Wiltshire Times (22 September 1943). 5 Muriel Merritt papers (IWM 2860). 6 Scharlieb, ‘‘Recreational Activities”, Child Study (1911), 1-15; Womanhood and Race-Regeneration (London 1912), 54-63. 7 Women’s Cricket (May 1946), 2. 8 Roger Broad, Conscription in Britain 1939-1964 (Abingdon, 2006), 152. 9 The Cricketer 27:4 (1946), 107. 10 WCA, Official Handbook 1946 (London, 1946), 4. 11 Royal Holloway College Letter (July 1891), 14; (July 1910), 36; (November 1931), 55; CWM (May 1912), 1295; (September 1921), 21; (July 1927), 301. 12 Burnley Express (30 March 1940), 6; (29 June 1940), 2; WCA, Yearbook 1947 (London, 1947), 17. 13 Nicholson, ‘We didn’t just make the teas’, 148-50. 14 CWM (Summer 1951), 20; BWM (1956); Huntley and Palmer’s, ‘Ladies’ Record of Activities’, (Museum of English Rural Life, HP768). Survey of 362 employees, or 25% of the female workforce. 15 Hilary Halter, The School on the Hill: Three Hundred Years of Friends’ School (Saffron Walden, 2002), 63; Royal Holloway College Letter (November 1945), 37. 16 Quoted in Nicholson, ‘“Like a man trying to knit”, 9, 70. 17 Women’s Cricket (September 1948), 143. 18 Mass Observation, Report on Sport, (no. 3141, July 1949), 3; Langhamer, Women’s Leisure in England , 169. 19 Manchester Guardian (5 April 1945), 2. 20 Women’s Cricket (31 August 1956), 129. 21 Raf Nicholson, ‘Who Killed Schoolgirl Cricket? The WCA and the death of an opportunity, 1945-60’, History of Education 41:6 (2012), 771-86. 22 Women’s Cricket (May 1946), 1; Nicholson, ‘Who Killed Schoolgirl Cricket?’, 782-3. 23 Mark Rowe, ‘Women in English Cricket Literature’, The Cricket Statistician (December 2015), 17-19. 24 Heyhoe-Flint and Rheinberg, Fair Play , 47-58; Nicholson, ‘“Like a man trying to knit”, 42-61, 71-88. 25 The Guardian (21 July 2017); (24 July 2017); (24 January 2018). 26 Pollard, Cricket for Women and Girls , 138-9. 27 The Guardian (3 May 2017). Conclusion - War Again, and its Aftermath