Guiding and Girl Scouting History Scouting

The Scouting movement's female branch began in 1908, soon after Robert Baden-Powell saw that girls were taking part in the scouting movement. With his sister Agnes, the project of an outdoors program for girls was begun. Olave Baden-Powell, the founders wife, took up the cause and became the Chief Guide of the World. The movement invarious countries is called Girl Guides or Girl Scouts. In countries with a coeducational program there are often units for girls only.

• How Guiding began - The history of Guides and Brownie Guides of guiding and girl scouting the United Kingdom Guide Association.
• Girl Guides 12th World Conference - 1948 - Pictures taken by Dorothy J. Stanley at the 1948 Girl scouting Guides World Conference held in Cooperstown, New York.
• The Girl Guide Movement in the United Kingdom - BBC archive article about the role Lord Baden-Powell played in history development of Guiding.

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