In this video Alison and Claudia provide an account of heroines in occupied France and Belgium during World War 1. They focus in particular on Edith Cavell, a British nurse who spoke fluent French and ran a training school for Belgian nurses. When war broke out, she became involved in a local network of Belgians and helped around 200 French and British soldiers to escape. She was betrayed, arrested alongside other network members in August 1915, and when interrogated by the Germans admitted what she had done. Despite diplomatic attempts to overturn the sentence, she was executed in Brussels by firing squad on the 12 October 1915. Her death caused international outrage. Whereas during the war, propagandists were quick to use her story as a means of demonising the enemy, or as a recruitment tool, after the war her heroism took on different meanings. Alison and Claudia examine a number of images of Cavell in order to explore these evolving ways in which her heroism was understood.