Garrick Club and Women’s Institute swapping members would benefit society
Letters: Neil Hanson, Polly Bissett and Alistair Gregory on the club’s decision to accept women
April 2023
Brief letters
How a spirit of inclusivity got our Women’s Institute branch over the line
Brief letters: WI membership | Pleated trouser search | Windsor wealth wallchart | Tory wreckers | Rear end in sight
Women’s Institute will ‘continue to celebrate’ transgender women amid inclusivity row
Exclusive: Melissa Green, CEO of the organisation, says it won’t be part of ‘toxic’ debate on trans membership
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
SNP in ‘total meltdown’ following arrests and party funding investigation, say Scottish Tories – as it happened
Scotland’s first minister says he was ‘surprised’ to learn of Colin Beattie’s arrest but adds ‘people are innocent until proven guilty’
March 2023
Women’s Institute remains relevant to members of all ages
‘I want to give mid-life women a voice’: Labour’s Anneliese Dodds on menopause, careers and the WI
November 2021
A new start after 60
A new start after 60: ‘I decided to transition at 68’
Petra Wenham re-evaluated her life in hospital, confronting an unease she had always felt, before coming out as transgender
September 2021
Fit washing machines with filters to reduce microplastic pollution, MPs say
Women’s Institute supports initiative, urging manufacturers to take action on plastic microfibres
May 2020
Building a better world through mutual aid
Letters: Readers respond to Rebecca Solnit’s long read on the spirit of solidarity and cooperation that has arisen from the coronavirus crisis
January 2020
Fuddy-duddy WI typecasting is unfair
Women’s Institute revival brings to mind its radical roots
December 2019
Brief letters
Down with the kids in Tunbridge Wells
Manchester gives Women's Institute revival a modern twist
November 2019
From the Guardian archive
Women’s institutes offer fellowship and ideas – archive, 1924
19 November 1924 Quite often a group of institutes join together and draw attention to sanitation, bad roads, or the necessity for a motor-bus
January 2019
Queen's speech calling for 'common ground' seen as Brexit allusion
Monarch also calls on subjects not to lose sight of bigger picture in speech marking centenary of Women’s Institute
July 2018
Obama does Nelson Mandela's ‘Madiba Dance’ in South Africa – video
Former US president Barack Obama attempts Nelson Mandela's famous 'Madiba Dance', to amusement from South African president Cyril Ramaphosa
June 2018
Shortcuts
Overexposed – is it time to end the saucy naked calendar?
Popularised by the WI 20 years ago, such calendars subverted the notions of nudity and the perfect body, but has the idea become lazy, ubiquitous and dated?
April 2018
Keep calm, there’s no generational war at the Women’s Institute
Caroline Brooks
Whether stitching vulva quilts in Shoreditch or putting on village bake sales, our goal is united – helping women of all ages, writes WI member Caroline Brooks
June 2017
Other lives
Beryl Allan obituary
Other lives: Scientist who played an active role in the Women’s Institute
April 2017
Women's Institute urges supermarkets to do more to cut food waste
First WI report on food waste finds confusion persists over ‘best before’ and ‘sell by’ dates, with supermarkets potentially contributing to the problem
