Pen Friends: 1 war, 11 women, 200,000 words

In 1914, 11 girls leaving the Mount School in York invented the WhatsApp Group - a round robin notebook of letters that continued for decades, allowing us to eavesdrop on the lives of young Quaker women entering a world at war: fighting for suffrage, throwing themselves into social action and political activism.

Historian Krista Cowman and playwright Bridget Foreman introduce staged extracts from this unique correspondence.Free Tickets