One hundred years ago girls gathered at Crystal Palace in London to ask Lord Baden-Powell to set up a female equivalent of the boy scouts, and so the girl guide movement came into being.
Today I attended the opening of an exhibition about one hundred years of girlguiding at Wakefield Museum. It is a collection of items showing guiding over those years, including uniforms and badges. It not shows how guiding has changed over that time, it also ilustrates how attitudes to girls have changed too. They are no longer trained to become stay at home housewives.
The exhibition runs until 15 August 2010.
I was also told about the Centenary Camp where thousands of guides, including visitors from abroad, will attend Britain's largest Guide camp. This will be held at Harewood House from 31 July to 7 August 2010.
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