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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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WRVS
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(Women's Royal Voluntary Service) The name since 1966 of the WVS, which played a major part on the home front during *World War II. The Women's Voluntary Service was formed in 1938 to recruit women for air raid service. During the war it had more than a million members, most of them housewives involved on a part-time basis in a wide range of emergency and welfare activities. A smaller membership (about 150,000 in the early 1990s) has continued in peacetime with similar activities, such as caring for disaster victims, doing voluntary work in hospitals and delivering 'meals on wheels' to the elderly.
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