Corporate Open DS/UK/428 Women's Guild of Empire; fl 1920s; British women's organisation Women's Guild of Empire fl 1920s British women's organisation W.G.E | WGE DS/UK/3256 DS/UK/3257

Movement; Women / Politics Founded by Flora Drummond and Elsie Bowerman (former suffragettes), the organization aimed at furthering a sense of patriotism in working-class women and defeating such socialist manifestations as strikes and lock-outs. By 1925 Drummond claimed the organization had a membership of 40,000. Women's Guild of Empire, a right wing league opposed to communism and fascism Her one-time militant partner Norah Elam, who had become a leading member of Mosley's British Union of Fascists wrote a scathing attack of the Guild calling it an anti-fascist circus describing her former friend as an 'extinct volcano'. International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition - ICA 2004 ISBN 2-9521932-2-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 Yes RAHhbryony 7/27/2012 Rachael.Fragola 3/1/2022 5d442273-aa2c-4efb-8cde-a830f4479327