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Soon to be a PBS Masterpiece series starring Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis (Cranford) Away from the frontlines of World Battle II, in towns and villages across THE UK, standard women were participating in a vital role in their country's warfare effort. As participants of the Women's Institute, a business with a existence in another of Britain's villages, they ran canteens and knitted apparel for troops, accumulated tons of rosehips and other herbal remedies to replace medications that couldn't be brought in, and advised the government on issues ranging from evacuee cover to children's health to postwar reconstruction. But they are best known for making jam: From produce they grew on every available scrap of land, they produced 12 million pounds of jam and preserves to nourish a hungry land. Home Fires, Julie Summers' attractive social record of the Women's Institute during the warfare (when its participants included the near future Queen Elizabeth II along with her mother and grandmother), supplies the remarkable and motivating true tale behind the upcoming PBS Masterpiece series that will be sure to delight supporters of Call the Midwife and Foyle's Battle. Through archival material and interviews with current and ex - Women's Institute participants, Home Fires gives us an intimate take a look at life on the house front during World Battle II.
