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First Handbook for Girl Guides 1912: Badge Descriptions 1

Tests for proficiency badges from the first Handbook for Girl Guides in 1912, showing the diversity of the types of badges girls could (and still can) achieve, from Dairymaid to Electrician.

The full title of this book is The Handbook for Girl Guides or How Girls can Help Build the Empire'. What do you think this title might tell us about what the role of Guides was seen to be and why learning all these skills might be useful?

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