Women in First World War Britain: Exploitation, revolt and betrayal
214-5.) Ultimately the true and final emancipation of women will be achieved through the emancipation of the working class as a whole, where class oppression will be removed and with it all the other forms of oppression that accompany it. Factory workers faced the dangers of unstable explosives, possible air raids as well as the health risks from handling noxious substances known to cause a range of medical disorders from skin complaints to bone disintegration
The Pankhursts reined in the WSPU's militant campaign, arguing that the military triumph of a 'male nation' such as Germany would be 'a disastrous blow to the women's movement'. Further proof of the limits of the wartime march towards sexual equality was provided by the post-war backlash against women's employment - in particular, against the continued employment of married women
"Up to that point, they had been just strangers on paper." What most intrigues today's Mayburys is how a boy who was abandoned by his country would then feel an obligation to return to fight for that country. When he died several years ago, he left behind what the children had come to call "The Family Tickle Trunk" stuffed with papers from the Bernardo foundation, those few photographs and a lot of unanswered questions
If it had done so, then Lord Northcliffe could not have campaigned so relentlessly against war minister Lord Kitchener through his newspapers, the Times and Daily Mail. The catalogue of journalistic misdeeds is a matter of record: the willingness to publish propaganda as fact, the apparently tame acceptance of censorship and the failure to hold power to account
War propaganda - Leeds University Library
German aircrews mainly targeted London and the surrounding areas; however as 1915 wore on the bombing parties travelled further afield, dropping bombs on Norfolk and the West Midlands. This poster refers specifically to the Mechanical Transport division of the RASC, responsible for the supply and maintenance of lorries, motorcycles, cars and even requisitioned omnibuses (like this example in the Imperial War Museum London)
As the president of the British Psycho-Analytic Association, Ernest Jones, explained: war constituted 'an official abrogation of civilised standards' in which men were not only allowed, but encouraged: '...to indulge in behaviour of a kind that is throughout abhorrent to the civilised mind.... The Wilfred Owen Multimedia Digital Archive Top About the author Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck College and the author of a number of books, including An Intimate History of Killing (Granta, 1998) and The Second World War: A People's History (Oxford University Press, 2001)
First World War.com - Feature Articles - Life in the Trenches
Even when clothing was periodically washed and deloused, lice eggs invariably remained hidden in the seams; within a few hours of the clothes being re-worn the body heat generated would cause the eggs to hatch. Both sides would often relieve the tension of the early hours with machine gun fire, shelling and small arms fire, directed into the mist to their front: this made doubly sure of safety at dawn
First World War.com - A Multimedia History of World War One
Who's Who: Adolf Hitler Observing War from Above Read how each side made use of observation balloons during wartime, principally on the Western Front, as a means of spying on the opposing enemies lines, and of the often short lifespan of those servicemen who were courageous enough to occupy them. The Doomed Tsar - Nicholas II of Russia A Slow Fuse: Hitler's Wartime Experience Read how Adolf Hitler's experience in the German infantry during the Great War helped shape his subsequent character, from initial eager enlistment in the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment to bitter anger and frustration following German defeat in 1918
British Campaign Medals of the First World War (WW1)
Recipients who received the medal with the clasp were also entitled to attach a small silver heraldic rose to the ribbon when just the ribbon was being worn. The badge was originally issued to officers and men who were discharged or retired from the military forces as a result of sickness or injury caused by their war service
Although she had been given elementary medical and military training in the Women's First Aid Yeomanry Corps and St John's Ambulance, she had no regrets about leaving nursing for the life of a combatant. Although 60 times more civilians were killed during the bombing raids of World War Two, at the time it was an immense trauma for women, particularly in London and the South East
World War One - The British Library
Read more Sensuous life in the trenches From smell and sound to touch and perception, Dr Santanu Das draws on soldiers' records to consider the sensory experiences within the trenches of World War One. Read more Changing lives: gender expectations and roles during and after World War One Considering the roles of both men and women during World War One, Susan R Grayzel asks to what extent the war challenged gender roles and to what degree society accepted them
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