Girl Guides

The book covered topics such as tracking, signalling, and cooking, and it outlined a method for an "instruction in good citizenship".

[1] In those days, camping and hiking were not common activities for girls, as shown in an excerpt from The Boy Scouts Headquarters Gazette of 1909: "If a girl is not allowed to run, or even hurry, to swim, ride a bike, or raise her arms above her head, how can she become a Scout?

Following negative publicity in The Spectator[6] magazine, Baden-Powell decided that a separate, single-sex organisation would be best.

[8] Other influential women in the history of the movement were Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA, Olga Drahonowska-Małkowska in Poland and Antoinette Butte in France.

Their aim was to send teams of adult Girl Guides to Europe after World War II to aid with relief work.

[13][14] The work of the organisation is described in two books: All Things Uncertain by Phyllis Stewart Brown and Guides Can Do Anything by Nancy Eastick.

A total of 198 Guiders and 60 Scouts, drawn from Britain, Australia, Canada, Ireland and Kenya, worked in teams during the relief efforts.

[17] Even when most Scout organisations became mixed-sex, Guiding remained sex-separated in most countries to provide a female-centred programme.

[18] Things that are shared amongst all Guide Units are:[12] Two central themes have been present from the earliest days of the movement: domestic skills and "a kind of practical feminism which embodies physical fitness, survival skills, camping, citizenship training, and career preparation".

[28] In the 1909 The Scheme for Girl Guides, the uniform for the newly emerging movement was given as: Jersey of company colour.

Officers wear ordinary country walking-dress, with biretta of dark blue, white shoulder knot, walking stick, and whistle on lanyard.

Princess Mary and Girl Guides, 1922
Eerste Nederlandsche Meisjes Gezellen Vereeniging (First Dutch Girls Companions Society), 1911, first Dutch Girl Guides
Singing Girl Guides in Germany , 2007