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the WAR WOMEN OF ENGLAND [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

I. A recruiting march by girls of the Women's Land Army in central London, April 1918. Members of the Women's Land Army form an escort for the Lord Mayor of London, Charles A Hanson, as he enters Sain...

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WOMEN AND THE WAR [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

The film opens with Oxford Street in London and declares that "luxury shopping" is not helping the war effort. This is contrasted with the ways in which women do help: a mother looking after her two s...

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the WOMEN'S LAND ARMY [Main]
1917
Imperial War Museums

The film uses acted material to show two "ladies of leisure" riding in Rotten Row, contrasted with the "women of action" of the Land Army practising drill. The two ladies decide to join the Land Army ...

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the WOMEN FARMERS OF BRITAIN [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

I. The rally in Birmingham led by a male band. The women are mostly in uniform. The marching column includes a steam tractor, a horse-drawn plough and a horse-drawn rake. The procession goes up New St...

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WOMEN'S WORK ON MUNITIONS OF WAR [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

I. (Reel 1) The Handley Page works at Cricklewood, London. Women work as clerks, help build aeroplane engines, cope with acetylene welding and complex wiring jobs, spray-paint Lewis machine gun magazi...

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WOMEN'S ROYAL AIR FORCE [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

Some of the women work driving or doing maintenance work on RAF cars and lorries. One woman changes the tyre on a staff car, but is unable to get the inner tube detached from the tyre, even with the h...

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BRITISH WOMEN'S AIR FORCE [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

Two women volunteers go along to the recruiting centre, emerging in WRAF uniform. There is a parade at the station, after which the women depart to their various duties. Some work as clerks, some as w...

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GUNS [Main]
1918
Imperial War Museums

Women workers, supervised by men, constructing heavy guns at the Armstrong Whitworth munitions factory in Newcastle, probably 1918.

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