article_snippet: Some people think of the Women's Institute of just jam and Jerusalem.
article_snippet: While many think of The WI as a place where older ladies go to make jam, sing Jerusalem and learn skills like flower arranging and sewing, it has actually been behind some of the biggest social changes in British history.
article_snippet: her book covers the very beginnings of the movement right through to modern women like the Calendar Girls making modern women like the Calendar Girls mark. '
article_snippet: they success was completely unprecedented and they 'alternative the WI calendar'
article_snippet: Mrs Curtis said: 'The 'Calendar Girls' rejuvenated everything.
article_snippet: The 'Calendar Girls' overturned the idea of the WI as an old fashioned collection of elderly ladies who made jam and sang Jerusalem. '