Contributed by Paul Edward Strong. First published in Women In War WiW Group Newsletter No.28 Autumn/Winter 2020, Ed: Paul Strong & Celia Lee. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, with her nephew, Æthelstan (Source: Wikimedia photo of the statue at Tamworth) In the millennia between the emergence of organised warfare and the modern era (post 1800), […]