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'Lancashire is Delivering the Goods': munitions in the Manchester District - shell-production
Drawing of munitions production in Manchester and nearby locations, with a short discussion
Tags: Bolton, Bury, drawing, Illustrated London News, Lancashire, Manchester, munitions, war work, women
Carlisle Women Munitions Workers Football Team, 1917
The photograph shows women dressed as munitions workers, posing with a football that has been inscribed with 'EAST CUMB WMW 1917'. Two of the women wear the triangular 'On War Service' badges that were issued to munitions workers.
The implication…
The implication…
Tags: Carlisle, Cumbria, football, photograph, sport, war work, women, World War 1
Carlisle, Cumbria: start of the Women Police Service
A discussion of the Carlisle contingent of the Women Police Service - at 165 members this was the largest branch of the organisation. At its peak there were around 12,000 female munitions workers at the Gretna factory and they were relatively well…
Tags: audio, Carlisle, crime, Cumbria, drunkenness, munitions, photograph, video, war work, women
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
Engine cleaners (?) at Upperby Depot, Carlisle
Photograph which possibly shows women engine-cleaners, who would have been drafted in to undertake this work during World War One.
Tags: Carlisle, photograph, railway, transport, war work, women, World War 1
The Great Railway Strike: comments and responses
The files on this item are all drawn from the same edition of the Illustrated London News, from early October 1919. They all relate to a national railway strike which started on 27 September 1919.
During World War One, and its immediate aftermath, …
During World War One, and its immediate aftermath, …
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Plan of a slave vessel
Engravings of two drawings showing how slaves were transported by ship, illustrating an account of a debate on the slave trade in the House of Lords. …