This title is previously released in eBook format, now available as a paperback due to popular demand. Based on archival and secondary sources, counterpoising firsthand accounts with rigorous historical research and short pithy biographical sketches, to bring modern readers into the world of 1920s humanitarian aid "Embroidering History: An Englishwoman's Experience as a Humanitarian Aid Volunteer in Post-War Poland, 1924-1925" provides a glimpse inside the inner workings of an early humanitarian aid project through the lively letters of a middle class English woman who steps out of her depth into rural village life in post-war Poland of 1925. She leaves teaching to volunteer with a Quaker project providing income generating work for refugee peasant women. Along the way she encounters recalcitrant Belarusian peasants, manipulative local government officials, excitable bourgeois Poles, and...
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