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100 Years of Nursery World A– Z: B is for 'belonging'

From the Nursery World Friendship League founded 99 years ago to our anti-racist series in 2022, a sense of community runs through NW’s history. By Annette Rawstrone
Our article about Jenna Bailey's 2007 book 'Can Any Mother Help Me?' was inspired by Rose Hacker's letter published in Nursery World in 1935, which led to a group of mothers setting up the Cooperative Correspondence Club (CCC)

Long before social media was even dreamt of, Nursery World magazine was a place where like-minded people could link up and find a sense of belonging – that feeling of acceptance, inclusion and security that comes from being part of a group.

The Nursery World Friendship League (NWFL) was started in the magazine 99 years ago with five enquiries from lonely nannies who wanted to meet local children’s nurses. The NWFL was used by readers – both those who worked with children and, in those days, mothers – to establish correspondence clubs where they would write ‘round robin’ letters about the joys and frustrations of their work and home life.

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