Provided unprecedented employment opportunities for women
Perform vital war work
Fill the jobs of men who joined armies
Nature of women’s employment after the war → a more permanent shift away from domestic service to white-collar employment
Women still received lower wages than men
War Casualties
2, 040,000 dead. Percentage killed of men served: 15%. Number wounded: 5, 690,000
Charles I Triple Portrait
Charles I in Three Positions, also known as the Triple portrait of Charles I, is an oil painting of Charles I of England by Flemish artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck, showing the King from three viewpoints: left full profile, face on, and right three quarter profile. [more]
The Shrimp Girl
The Shrimp Girl is a painting by the English artist William Hogarth. It was painted around 1740–45, and is held by the National Gallery, London. [more]
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Mr and Mrs Andrews is an oil on canvas portrait of about 1750 by Thomas Gainsborough, now in the National Gallery, London. [more]
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Spanish flu epidemic
→Impact on civilians
Disease swept through cities, spreading panic
Impacts of flu was underreported in countries at war to keep up morale of citizens
As young men were mobilised for war and packed into overcrowded staging camps, the virus managed to spread quickly
There was a shortage of medical workers in the cities as many were serving in the field hospitals near the frontlines
Killed between 20-40 million people globally
Socio-cultural impacts
Structures, customs, and traditions of a society are frequently changed by war. For example. World War One brought about huge transformations in European society, including a shift in the status of women and the beginning of the collapse of the traditional ruling classes.
