The fact that nobody saw the end coming, the way it did, highlights the value of going back, a hundred years later, and reliving events day by day, as they took place. What may seem obvious now was anything but so then, and we do the people who lived through it, and our understanding of them, a real disservice when we assume that it was. “Life can only be understood backwards,” the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard observed, “but it must be lived forwards.”
I could look at these over and over again, couldn't you?
A short overtime sprint won't kill you but, as data from World War One shows, consistently putting in too many hours at work hurts employees and employers.
Women took over difficult and hazardous jobs to fuel the war effort.
The sacrifice of soldiers killed in the world wars is well-documented, but who were the munitions workers stained yellow by toxic chemicals?
The photographs, all of which were taken between 1914 and 1919, show women toiling away at roles once reserved for men.
With nearly 20 million deaths and more than 20 million wounded, in its time, World War I was the most devastating conflict human history had ever seen. It
"We are here, not because we are lawbreakers; We are here in our efforts to become lawmakers" Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928). Tuesday 6th February 2018 marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918 in Britain, which granted voting rights to women over the age of 30. As a photo colouriser and lover of history, I wanted to mark this anniversary by bringing some life into the photos of the women who helped to break down social divisions.
The woman are seen at an electrical engineering firm owned by Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti in Oldham, Greater Manchester, that diversified and began to employ female workers in 1915.
With nearly 20 million deaths and more than 20 million wounded, in its time, World War I was the most devastating conflict human history had ever seen. It
20 striking photos of the women of WWI doing the dangerous jobs like munitions production and keeping up the home front.
Q 30029. A young woman and an old man both workers at Chilwell munitions factory transport shells across the factory floor. Each is pushing a sack barrow
Q 10024. Interior view of the Medical Comforts store Case Goods Depot of the Base Supply Depot Vendroux.
How 'plucky' heroines of 1914-18 conflict seized chance to advance women's freedoms
At lunchtime, the women had to be separated in the cafeteria because everything they touched turned yellow. They were called the "Canary Girls" because of their bright yellow skin and green or ginger-coloured hair. With the nation's men at war and male labour in short supply, Britain's women had bee
Sheffield Simplex Motor Works Ltd., Fitzwilliam Works, Tinsley, Sheffield Sheffield Local Studies Library: Picture Sheffield: s02071[2] For more images of the First World War in Sheffield, see: www.picturesheffield.com See our study guide on the First World War in Sheffield at: www.sheffield.gov.uk/libraries/archives-and-local-studies...
These incredible vintage photos captured everyday life of British female war workers during World War One. Women war workers, including the distinctively white-capped and aproned VAD nurses, parade outside Buckingham Palace in 1918. Members of the Women's Royal Air Force arrive at Buckingham Palace, London, to attend a party for war workers in 1919. Female ambulance workers, such as this group photographed in November 1915, served both at home and on the front line. While some women became nurses, others worked in hospital workshops, such as this one at the Kensington War Hospital, making prosthetic limbs. 950,000 female workers were employed in British factories, including this worker, pictured making shell cases in a Vickers factory in January 1915 . 400 women died in munitions factories, between 1914 (when this image was taken) and 1918, when the war ended. Exposure to toxic sulphur left many workers with yellowed skin, while others were killed in explosions. One 1917 incident killed 73 and flattened 900 homes Despite being paid less than their male counterparts, many of the female munitionettes undertook dangerous and fiddly work. Members of the Women's Fire Brigade with their Chief Officer photographed in their uniforms beside an extinguished fire in March 1916. Members of the Women's Fire Brigade are put through their paces during a fire drill with hoses and extinguishers at full force in March 1916. A member of the Women Porters At Marylebone Station Group, pictured in 1914 giving a Great Central Railways carriage a thorough clean. Women employed in the transport industry increased by 555 per cent during the war, and included this pair of female porters at Marylebone Station in 1915. As this 1917 photograph shows, female war workers didn't just run trains and buses - they fixed and maintained them too. As part of the war effort, old paper had to be reused. These women are pulling apart old ledgers belonging to the London & South West Railway. The paper, as this photo taken on the 16th April 1917 shows, then had to be sorted into piles and stored. Women even took on tough, physical roles such as moving rubble, as seen in this photograph taken in Coventry during 1917. (via Daily Mail Online)
