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What do you think happens when a woman ambulance driver returns from the Great War only to find herself stuck on a diary farm? Be honest, you didn’t expect her to start a British fascist organization, but that’s what Rotha Lintorn-Orman ended up doing.
Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way)
Feminine Fascism: Women in Britain’s Fascist Movement by Julie V. Gottlieb
“Hurrah for the Blackshirts!”: Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the Wars by Martin Pugh
“How Rotha Lintorn-Orman Founded British Fascism” by Edward White in ‘The Paris
Review’
“A Male Department of Warfare:” Female Ambulance Drivers in the First World War – Nursing Clio by Marie Allit
Women in the House of Commons – UK Parliament
Lives of the First World War via the Imperial War Museum
Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service and WW1 Field Hospital – The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh – The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Special Collections)