Julie Bindel Julie Bindel

They felt they could achieve anything together: two brave women in war-torn Serbia

Vera Holme and Evelina Haverfield, lovers and fellow suffragettes, risked their lives as nursing staff in the first world war and exposed the absurdity of Edwardian homophobia

A studio photograph of Jack (right) and Eve.

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