Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring
To Dress Extravagantly in War Time
Women of Britain - Come into the Factories
Join the Wrens - and Free a Man for the Fleet
Train to be a Nurse
Join the ATS
Go Through Your Wardrobe - Make-Do and Mend
The Kitchen is the Key to Victory
Women's Royal Naval Service
A female member of Air Raid Precautions staff applies her lipstick between emergency calls.
Munition workers in a shell warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917.
WAAF radar operator Denise Miley plotting aircraft on a cathode ray tube in the Receiver Room at Bawdsey 'Chain Home' station, May 1945.
Women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in flying kit at Hatfield, 10 January 1940.
A Cecil Beaton portrait of a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service equipped for gardening duties.
A group of women enjoy a drink and share a joke at the Wynnstay Arms, Ruabon, Benbighshire, Wales, 1944.
A veteran sergeant in the Dorking Home Guard cleans his Tommy gun at the dining room table, before going on parade, 1 December 1940.
Women's Land Army : Ditching
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.
Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service sampling the Christmas pudding at Greenock in Scotland, 19 December 1942.
A Cecil Beaton portrait of a cook in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
Members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRNS) move a torpedo for loading into a submarine at Portsmouth, 29 September 1943.
Please Get There ... and Back! - Be Careful What You Say or Write
Women of Britain Say 'Go!'
An RAF sergeant shares an alfresco lunch with two Dutch women at Nieuland, near Middelburg, soon after the town had been liberated by Allied forces, November 1944.