Last week, The Devil s Porridge Museum hosted the conference with twenty-four speakers from around the world. The Devil s Porridge Museum is a war museum located on Annan Road in Eastriggs. The speakers were organised onto six different panels on themes such as: Women in Industry; Leisure during War, and Women in service. There was also a keynote speech by Professor Angela Woolacott, the author of On Her Their Lives Depend: Munition Workers in the Great War , and a musical performance by the award winning folk musician, Claire Hastings - she performed her song The Gretna Girls . Judith Hewitt, the Manager at The Devil s Porride Museum, said: It was wonderful to end the conference where it all began - with the stories of the twelve-thousand women who mixed The Devil s porridge in World War One.