Cricket Witness No 4 - Women at the WIcket

156 Newnham Collage, University of Cambridge, 12, 23 Royal Holloway College, 23, 24 , 26, 116, 138, 142, 144 University of London Athletics Union, 42 University of Manchester, 24 University of Oxford, 24, 47 Verity, Hedley, 20, f.31 Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD), 12 Warner, Pelham, 52, 127 West Indies, women’s cricket in, 41 Wethered, Joyce, 59-60 Willes, Christina, 23 Williamson, Kennedy, 94 Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack , 51, 126, 147 Women’s Army Auxiliary Corp (WAAC), 8, 9 , 11-12; Auxiliary Territorial Service (Second World War), 137 Women’s Cricket , 29, 44, 48, 59, 67-69, 71-72, 79, 99, 101, 116, 118, 125, 132, 137, 144-45 Women’s Cricket Association (WCA), 20, 25, 29, 37 , 38 , 39 , 40, 51-52, 58-64, 85-86, 90-91, 112, 115-16, 118, 121, 135, 137; amateurism, 66-72 and class, 75-83 and clothing, 61-64 and feminism, 95-108 formation and development, 14, 16-17, 21-22, 33-36, 42-45, 124-26, 139-43, 145-46, 148 and the National Fitness Campaign, 129-34 see also England, women’s cricket Women’s Cricket World Cup, 4-5, 21, 146-48 Women’s Institute, 28, 98, 101, 112, 115, 133 Women’s Land Army, 98, 137-38 Women’s League of Health and Beauty, 28, 64, 133 Women’s Royal Air Force (WAAF), 8, 137-38 Women’s Royal Naval Service (Wrens), 6-7, 8 , 9, 138 Women’s Social and Political Union, see suffrage, Emmeline Pankhurst Women’s Team Games Board, 133-34 workplace cricket, 7-13, 16-17, 27, 75-91; Aspro, 80 Aylesford Paper Mills, 81 Boots, 76, 81 British Drug Houses, 81, 86 Burberry, 80 Cadbury’s (Bournville Girls’ Athletic Club), 11, 27, 42, 76, 78, 84-85, 88- 89, 143, 146 Civil Service, 43, 84-85 Co-operative Wholesale Society, 42, 86, 90-91 Crittall Manufacturing Company, 11 Forman’s Paper Mill, 81 Fry and Sons, 78 Horlicks, 80 Huntley and Palmer’s, 11, 80, 85, 143 Imperial Tobacco, 76, 81 Irlam Soap Works, 90 Lever Brothers (Unilever), 76 Leyland Motors, 76, 81 LMS Railway, 86 Lyons, 81 Peek Frean, 80 Player’s, 81 Rowntree’s, 76, 83 , 86 , 142-43 Templeborough National Projectile Factory, 11 Woolworth’s, 81 Yorkshire Cricket Federation, 48; leagues (men’s), 34, 36, 75 Yorkshire Inter-City and Towns League, 34 Yorkshire Women’s Cricket Federation, 16, 34, 61, 75 Index