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Cleator Moor, Cumbria: fighting for women's rights
Audio discussion of a photograph (provided) of striking women workers meeting with Mary MacArthur of the National Federation of Women Workers. The women are wearing union membership badges. Their jobs related to making linen thread for khaki uniforms…
Tags: audio, Cumbria, photograph, strike, war work, women, World War 1
The World of Flight. Civil aviation, the calendar, and the weather.
Used against zeppelins in the air-raids: rockets fitted to an aeroplane - experimental practice-firing
The article by C.G. Grey discusses the early days of civil aviation, including the role played by the weather. The photograph is essentially unrelated other than it shows an approximately contemporaneous aircraft, which had been fitted with missile…
The V.C.'s-by-Vote Action: the assault at 'Lancashire Landing,' Gallipoli
This image shows the initial phase of the landing of 1st Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers at Cape Helles, Gallipoli, on 25 April 1915. The landing beach was subsequently known as 'Lancashire Landing'.
The regiment won the distinction of…
The regiment won the distinction of…
Kitchener at Work: the famous Field Marshal at his desk in the War Office
This work is notable as a drawing rather than a photograph - it is stated that 'special permission' was given to create the image. This may mean that it would have been impossible to create a photograph which both looked authentic and also did not…
The Great British Offensive North of the Somme: troops advancing to the capture of Montauban
Both the drawing and the written commentary call upon the testimony of eye-witnesses. The sub-caption of the image claims that the artist was working 'from material supplied by one who took part in the action'; the commentary includes a direct…
The East Lancashire Regiment
A drawing of Drummer Spencer John Bent, known as 'Joe', of the East Lancashire Regiment, with accompanying text, showing one of the courageous acts which led to the award of the Victoria Cross. The text includes a direct quotation from Drummer Bent,…
King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster
This website relates to the museum of the King's Own Royal Regiment, which is housed in the City Museum in Lancaster. It is linked to a number of other website relating to World War One, including 'Remember', written and developed by Steve Irwin for…
Tags: Lancaster, website, World War 1
'The Biggest Bluff in the War...a Triumph of Organisation': the Evacuation of Gallipoli
Photographs and descriptive commentary on various stages of the evacuation of Gallipoli, including a reference to the 'Lancashire Landing'. Considerable emphasis on the lack of casualties, which is in stark, yet unremarked, contrast to the huge loss…
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Map of the Battle of Preston
This map was drawn in 1818 and published in 1836, so over a century after the event it represents. However, it is closely based on an original map…