By 1918 nearly a million women had jobs linked to munitions. They worked with explosives which made some workers ill or their skin turn yellow. The Suffragettes were one of many groups asking for ...

Forgotten Women ... Kerr and Co munitions factory. Factory teams were a big thing during the First World War. While the men were away fighting, matches between female factory workers were ...

We hear about the huge demand for workers to make the munitions being rapidly used ... a research project into local history featuring women in WW1. Draft two speeches by David Lloyd-George ...

Dublin, 16 December 1915 - More than 600 women will begin working in Dublin munitions factories in the New Year. The site selected for the new factory currently holds the old woolen mills on ...

Over the course of WW1 and WW2, 500 female munitions workers made over 11 million incendiary ... This year the four women’s ...