To Dress Extravagantly in War Time
Join the Wrens - and Free a Man for the Fleet
Women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in flying kit at Hatfield, 10 January 1940.
Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring
Why Not Wear Something White Instead?
Women Wanted as Ambulance Drivers
Pauline Gower, Commandant of the Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Section, waving from the cockpit of a de Havilland Tiger Moth at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, prior to a delivery flight, 10 January 1940.
A Cecil Beaton portrait of a cook in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
A Cecil Beaton portrait of a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service equipped for gardening duties.
Please Get There ... and Back! - Be Careful What You Say or Write
Make-Do and Mend
Go Through Your Wardrobe - Make-Do and Mend
Join the ATS
Make Do and Mend
Camouflaged Cooling-towers
Mrs Redmond of Orford in Suffolk wearing her late husband's medals. She was also a member of various Civil Defence organisations, as can be seen from the badges she is wearing.
Mrs D Cheatle from Sheffield operating a capstan lathe at a munitions factory in Yorkshire during 1942.
A group of women enjoy a drink and share a joke at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon, Benbighshire, Wales, 1944.
Mrs Edith Digby, an Air Raid Warden on duty in Bermondsey, London during the Second World War.
A member of the Women's Royal Air Force at a plotting board at an RAF station, circa 1960.
A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.
Gladys Wilburn, a motor boat driver with the Women's Royal Naval Service, in her boat, the 'BALMACAAN', with her spaniel dog, Southwick, Sussex, 1918.
A sister and a matron from Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service during the First World War.
Political Personalities: Three quarter length portrait of Princess Durri Shehvar Berar, only daughter of the former Sultan of Turkey, photographed wearing a jewelled sari in India.
