Fashion & Design

Train to be a Nurse

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To Dress Extravagantly in War Time

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A heavily-armed jeep patrol from 'L' Detachment SAS in North Africa, 18 January 1943.

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Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring

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Join the Wrens - and Free a Man for the Fleet

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Women Wanted as Ambulance Drivers

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Women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in flying kit at Hatfield, 10 January 1940.

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Women of Britain - Come into the Factories

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Why Not Wear Something White Instead?

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War Weapons Week in a Country Town

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Two men of the 12th East Yorkshires wearing snow suits leaving their snow-covered trench on daylight patrol. Arleux Sector, 9 January 1918.

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Munition workers in a shell warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917.

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Join the ATS

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A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.

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A Cecil Beaton portrait of a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service equipped for gardening duties.

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WVS Clothing Exchange

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Women's Royal Naval Service

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Women's Land Army : Ditching

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Women of Britain Say 'Go!'

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Winston Churchill watches a female riveter at work on a Supermarine Spitfire at the Castle Bromwich factory in Birmingham, 28 September 1941.

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WAAF radar operator Denise Miley plotting aircraft on a cathode ray tube in the Receiver Room at Bawdsey 'Chain Home' station, May 1945.

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Two Wren cooks carve ham for the lunchtime meal in the galley of a Fleet Air Arm base in Scotland, 1943.

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Two women munitions workers with a truck load of shell cases in the New Case Shop at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich during the First World War.

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Two women munition workers operate a shell case forming machine during the First World War at the New Gun Factory of the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, London.

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