How war transformed the status and role of women
Nurse鈥檚 diary gives an insight into wartime experiences of women helping on the front
First time away from home and falling in love with an Aussie soldier
Nurse Dorothy Penrose Foster is one of few women awarded the military cross for bravery
When women were replacing men in farms
The backlash the first woman driver of Weston-super-Mare faced during WW1
As men fought at the front, Mary Barbour led the fight against rent rises at home.
Famous author of Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain, turned to medicine for the war effort
On the 2nd March 1918 Celtic Park played host to an England v Scotland football match.
In November 1914 Cardiff effectively came under martial law
Concern that respectable young girls of Swansea were being led astray.
The Armistice brought with it a harsh reality for tens of thousands of widows
Using woodworking skills to make wooden wings for combat aircraft
Thousands of women worked up to 78 hours a week with explosives, risking life and limb
The woman considered to be the first to wear trousers in Horden
School friends who moved across the country and exchanged wartime experiences
They filled 70,000 shells a week but canary girls paid the price with their health
The 鈥淔orces' Sweetheart鈥� who entertained wounded soldiers
The music hall star who recruited hundreds for the front
Establishing the Women鈥檚 Institute in Anglesey, and the movement鈥檚 role in the war effort
The first woman in England to be given the powers to arrest
The Women鈥檚 Land Army during WW1
The children of women munitions workers that were born yellow
Lurgan Courthouse, now a bar, loomed over women accused of drunkeness and child neglect.
Paving the way for a female workforce in factories across the country
