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WI not just about jam and Jerusalem, author tells Hay festival

Written By Unknown on Tuesday, May 31, 2016 | 10:10 AM

Maggie Andrews says members debated how to outwit Nazis and equal rights and were the acceptable face of feminism

Jam-making by members of the Women’s Institute is normally seen as a fun and essentially benign activity – not a way of killing Nazis.

Hay festival heard that during the second world war WI branches vigorously debated the consequences of a German invasion and jam was central.

Related: Women's Institute at 100: as pleasingly bolshie as ever

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