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 MAG011- Edition 2,000

The Girl Guides Gazette

After the release of MAG004 (The Scout) a couple of years ago we had several letter requesting a Girl Guide release so here it is. In the early years of the 20th century, Robert Baden-Powell, a famous army general, developed a scheme for training boys. He tried out his ideas at a camp on Brownsea Island in 1907 and the following year published them in a book, Scouting for Boys. The book was an instant success and boys throughout the country enthusiastically took up 'scouting'. As a result Baden-Powell soon found himself organising the Boy Scout Movement. At the Scouts' first rally, at the Crystal Palace in 1909, Baden-Powell (B-P) was faced with a small group of girls, representing hundreds of others, who insisted they wanted to be Scouts too. In an age when skirts were ankle length and young ladies never ran, the idea of girls being involved in camping, hiking and similar activities received a mixed response. Angry critics denounced 'girl scouting' as a 'mischievous new development', a 'foolish and pernicious movement', an 'idiotic sport'. However, the girls won. In 1910, Baden-Powell formed the Girl Guides and asked his sister Agnes to look after the new organisation. Such was the success that only a few years later the Gazette was launched proudly announcing on its cover - FOR GOD OUR KING & EMPIRE.

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