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The Role of Women in WW1
In 1914, as Britain's men headed abroad to fight, women took their place in huge numbers in the jobs that were left vacant - factories, shop
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Soldiers' Corner - Arnos Vale
Whilst we were doing our first Sounding the City project at Arnos Vale we found Soldiers Corner, which contains 240 graves of men who...
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Our Great Grandmothers
During our earlier Sounding the City project we started to look into Bristol's First World War history, mostly with a focus on the young...
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Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company
The Bristol Tramways Company was formed on 9 August 1875 by Sir George White and it operated until 11 April 1941 when a Luftwaffe bomb ...
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The Union of Women - 1 in 5!
British labour leaders maintained an anti-war stance up until the point that the government declared war on Germany. By the end of...
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Red Cross Auxiliary Hospitals
One of the many important services that the Red Cross provided during the First World War was auxiliary hospitals and convalescent homes...
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Exhausting, Dangerous & Horrific (and not just on the front line)
Following the outbreak of war on 4 August 1914, the British Red Cross formed the Joint War Committee with the Order of St John. Working...
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Dorothy at the Front!
Pressure from women for their own uniformed service to assist the war effort began in August 1914. After a War Office investigation...
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Women’s Land Army & Women’s Forestry Corps
The efforts of the Women’s Land Army in the First World War have been largely forgotten, and the fact that the organisation left so few ...
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Dilution & Substitution - curse or blessing?
In 1915 the historian G.D.H. Cole described 'dilution' as 'the introduction of the less skilled worker to undertake the whole or part ...
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United We Stand!
Bristol Women's Defence Relief Corps Across the country, women volunteered to help in the war effort. New branches of the armed services...
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Bristol Clippies, Detectives & the Tramway Riots
Women were first used as conductors or "clippies" (as they were nicknamed) on the trams during World War One. They began work in ...
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Munitions - Necessity v Nostalgia
Women in Industry - Here to Stay? Before the war, working class women were mainly involved in domestic service, ‘sweated’ labour and...
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