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History > UK, British empire, England

 

Early 21st century, 20th century

 

1930s-1940s > WW2 > UK >

Timeline in articles, pictures, podcasts

 

Women at war

 

 

 

 

A unit of lumberjills starting off for a day’s work in the woods.

Circa 1942.

 

Photograph: The New York Times

 

Women With Axes:

Looking Back at World War II ‘Lumberjills’

Meet Rosie the Riveter’s British cousins.

NYT

March 20, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/
world/europe/britain-lumberjills-world-war-ii-.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A unit of lumberjills

starting off for a day’s work in the woods.

 

Circa 1942.

 

Photograph: The New York Times

 

Women With Axes: Looking Back at World War II ‘Lumberjills’

Meet Rosie the Riveter’s British cousins.

The New York Times

March 20, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/
world/europe/britain-lumberjills-world-war-ii-.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Scottish Highlands

also came under the industrious axes of the lumberjills.

 

Circa 1942.

 

Photograph: The New York Times

 

Women With Axes: Looking Back at World War II ‘Lumberjills’

Meet Rosie the Riveter’s British cousins.

NYT

March 20, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/
world/europe/britain-lumberjills-world-war-ii-.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Two hundred women and girls of the Women’s Land Army

are now getting down to real hard work in a lonely part of Suffolk,”

read the original caption with this photo.

 

March 13, 1940.

 

Photograph: Associated Press

 

Women With Axes: Looking Back at World War II ‘Lumberjills’

Meet Rosie the Riveter’s British cousins.

NYT

March 20, 2019

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/
world/europe/britain-lumberjills-world-war-ii-.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lumberjills

 

Coordinated by

the Home Grown Timber

Production Department,

lumberjills were Rosie the Riveter’s

counterparts across the Atlantic.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/
world/europe/britain-lumberjills-world-war-ii-.html

 

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/
world/europe/britain-lumberjills-world-war-ii-.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11 November 1939

 

HM Queen Elizabeth Calls on Women

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/
hm-queen-elizabeth-calls-on-women/zv6vxyc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Women's Voluntary Services - in pictures    1938-1941

 

 

 

Station canteen,

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 20 November 1941

 

Original extract:

The changeover to the new canteen …

was achieved in triumph

without closing the old one for a single day.

 

The helpers were for a few days deafened

and greatly impeded in their work

by the hammering, sawing

and all the other activities

of a large body of workmen …

 

The customers are now able to sit in comfort at tables

instead of at a shelf round the wall.

 

Photograph: Royal Voluntary Service

 

Women's Voluntary Services - in pictures

G

Saturday 21 May 2016    13.55 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2016/may/21/
womens-voluntary-services-in-pictures 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During the second world war

one in ten of Britain’s female population

joined the WVS.

 

Monthly reports were kept

and photographs taken

to document the work

they undertook between

1938 and 1941.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2016/may/21/
womens-voluntary-services-in-pictures

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2016/
may/21/womens-voluntary-services-in-pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1939-1945

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Nazi Germany / era,

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late 19th century, early 20th century > UK >

Suffragettes

 

 

 

 

 

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Related > Anglonautes > Science > Scientists > Computing

 

Alan Mathison Turing    UK    1912-1954

 

 

 

 

 

Related

 

Germany: National Socialism and World War II

https://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/
Germany:_National_Socialism_and_World_War_II  

 

 

 

 

A lost heritage:

Nazi pictures reveal full devastation wreaked by allied bombers

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jul/10/
secondworldwar.germany

 

https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fotomarburg 

 

 

 

 

enemy propaganda

 

National Archives publish

wartime propaganda in online gallery    13 June 2012

 

Hundreds of images of war art including posters

and a portrait of the future queen are released online

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:
War_art_in_The_National_Archives_%28United_Kingdom%29

 

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/13/
national-archives-wartime-propaganda-gallery

 

 

 

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