Ideas and society

All themes

• Origins and founding

  • The Brownsea Island camp · Timeline event
  • Scouting for Boys, and the girls who read it · Timeline event
  • Girl Scouts at the Crystal Palace rally · Timeline event
  • The Girl Guides are organised · Timeline event
  • Juliette Gordon Low starts Guiding in the United States · Timeline event
  • The centenary year, 2009–10 · Timeline event

• Sections and age groups

  • Rosebuds become Brownies · Timeline event
  • Tomorrow's Guide and the 1968 programme · Timeline event
  • Rainbows become the youngest section · Timeline event
  • One programme from Rainbows to Rangers · Timeline event

• Childhood and girlhood

  • Scouting for Boys, and the girls who read it · Timeline event
  • Guides in the First World War · Timeline event
  • Rosebuds become Brownies · Timeline event
  • Tomorrow's Guide and the 1968 programme · Timeline event
  • Rainbows become the youngest section · Timeline event
  • One programme from Rainbows to Rangers · Timeline event

• Promise, ritual and ceremony

  • Rosebuds become Brownies · Timeline event
  • Thinking Day is chosen · Timeline event
  • Tomorrow's Guide and the 1968 programme · Timeline event
  • A new Promise and a new name · Timeline event
  • The centenary year, 2009–10 · Timeline event
  • A new Promise without "God" · Timeline event

• Gender and citizenship

  • Scouting for Boys, and the girls who read it · Timeline event
  • Girl Scouts at the Crystal Palace rally · Timeline event
  • How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire · Timeline event
  • Guides in the First World War · Timeline event
  • How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire (1912) · Object
  • The Jeff Banks uniform range, 1990 · Object

• Empire and decolonisation

  • The Girl Guides are organised · Timeline event
  • How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire · Timeline event
  • The first World Camp at Foxlease · Timeline event
  • The World Association is founded · Timeline event
  • How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire (1912) · Object
  • Agnes Baden-Powell · Person

• Internationalism

  • Juliette Gordon Low starts Guiding in the United States · Timeline event
  • The first World Camp at Foxlease · Timeline event
  • Thinking Day is chosen · Timeline event
  • The World Association is founded · Timeline event
  • Our Chalet, the first World Centre, opens · Timeline event
  • The Guide International Service · Timeline event

• War and service

  • Guides in the First World War · Timeline event
  • The Guide International Service · Timeline event
  • Girl Guide War Service badges, First World War · Object
  • Collapsible water bucket, Guide International Service · Object
  • 2nd Hunstanton Guide Company's record of war work, 1939–45 · Object
  • 1st Sandringham Guides logbook, 1944 · Object

• Camping and the outdoors

  • The Brownsea Island camp · Timeline event
  • The first World Camp at Foxlease · Timeline event
  • Our Chalet, the first World Centre, opens · Timeline event
  • National activity centres are sold · Timeline event
  • Campfire blanket with Guiding badges · Object
  • Collapsible water bucket, Guide International Service · Object

• Uniform, badges and print

  • How Girls Can Help to Build Up the Empire · Timeline event
  • Tomorrow's Guide and the 1968 programme · Timeline event
  • One programme from Rainbows to Rangers · Timeline event
  • Campfire blanket with Guiding badges · Object
  • Rosebud Promise badge, 1914 · Object
  • Girl Guide War Service badges, First World War · Object

• Religion and belief

  • A new Promise and a new name · Timeline event
  • A new Promise without "God" · Timeline event
  • The Promise and the Law · Practice
  • Who could belong? · Essay

• Inclusion and membership

  • The Trefoil Guild is formed · Timeline event
  • Membership defined by sex at birth · Timeline event
  • Juliette Gordon Low · Person
  • Camping and the outdoors · Practice
  • Girls and the outdoors · Essay
  • Who could belong? · Essay

• Class and access

  • The Brownsea Island camp · Timeline event
  • The first World Camp at Foxlease · Timeline event
  • Our Chalet, the first World Centre, opens · Timeline event
  • The Jeff Banks uniform range, 1990 · Object
  • Brownie dress altered for a new uniform · Object
  • Guide uniform, 1930s · Object

• Governance and organisation

  • The Girl Guides are organised · Timeline event
  • The World Association is founded · Timeline event
  • The Trefoil Guild is formed · Timeline event
  • A new Promise and a new name · Timeline event
  • National activity centres are sold · Timeline event
  • Membership defined by sex at birth · Timeline event

• Heritage and collections

  • The centenary year, 2009–10 · Timeline event
  • National activity centres are sold · Timeline event
  • 2nd Hunstanton Guide Company's record of war work, 1939–45 · Object
  • 1st Sandringham Guides logbook, 1944 · Object
  • Agnes Baden-Powell · Person
  • Juliette Gordon Low · Person