5 Feb 2025 // Imperial War Museum // 6:30 PM
Jack and Eve: Two Women in Love and War
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the lifting of the ban on gay people serving in the British armed forces, author Wendy Moore will be holding a special IWM in Conversation, focused on her book Jack and Eve: Two Women in Love and War.
Vera ‘Jack’ Holme and Evelina Haverfield met in 1908, fell in love, lived together, and became public faces of the suffragette movement. During the First World War their Suffragette activities were put on hold. They travelled to Serbia with the Scottish Women’s Hospital Service.
Together, they carved radical new paths, demonstrating that women could do anything men could do, whether driving ambulances, running military hospitals, becoming prisoners of war or bearing arms. Determined to be themselves, ‘forthright, flamboyant and proud’, Wendy Moore uses Jack and Eve’s story as a lens through which to view the suffragette movement, the work of women in the First World War and the development of lesbian identity throughout the twentieth century.
Price: £20 each