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Guiding Instructional Posters
From the start, Guide units were encouraged to find their own premises, and to then improve them by creating their own furnishing and decorations. Suggestions were given for building simple furniture out of wooden boxes sourced from the greengrocer, colourwashing walls, and making simple curtains from inexpensive fabric. But as…
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Extension Guide Badges
Extension Guiding was the term used for many years, for the section of Guiding focused on extending Guiding to girls with a range of disabilities in an inclusive way. As the reference book, “Guiding with the Handicapped” stated in 1960, “It can never be too strongly stressed that what we…
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Guide Proficiency Badges – chopping and changing?
With the range of interest badges for each section due to be increased soon, and some announcements already made, some may suggest Guiding is never done chopping and changing the range. Others may suggest that changes never used to be so frequent as they are nowadays – that once an…
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Guiding Magazines
A recent addition to the history website is a page on 20th Century Guiding leader magazines. Whilst there is not yet a full set (and whilst inevitably the page itself takes time to load) I though it would be helpful to share the images I have captured as part of…
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Guide uniform changes every five minutes these days . . . ?
With the UK going through a uniform review, we do hear claims that the UK Guide uniform seems to change every five minutes. Even though the reality is that there are usually decades between changes, not minutes. Nevertheless, a look at the constant chopping and changing of the Guide section…
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Trefoil Guild started in 1943, no?
Officially, yes. But that’s by no means the whole story. We can trace the story back much further. Indeed, it might date as far back as April 1914! For in issue 4 of the Girl Guides Gazette there was an article about the Rhyadder Company’s “Honourable Order of Old Guides”.…
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Guiding Uniform – Everyone loved the 1990s new look, no?
Yes, it’s that time again, UK Guiding is looking to do a redesign of the uniforms for all sections – the first full redesign across all sections since 1990. From the modern perspective, that 1990 redesign is often seen in a rosy glow or as a golden era. But was that how…
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UK Guiding Magazines
As part of my research work, I have taken photos of many Guiding magazines. As the archives are becoming less accessible, I’m taking the opportunity to include these on the website. I will gradually be adding images to the page as I can – it will take time. Apologies for…
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Does Guiding Archives becoming inaccessible matter to you?
That all depends. If you have never read a Guiding history book, never run a Guiding history activity with a Guiding group, never read a Guiding history website such as this one, then probably not. But given you’re here reading this, then it automatically does matter to you. A lot.…
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