Recruitment Register (1915)
Silvertown Explosion, January 1917
August 1916 Medical Report into factories
TNT Poisoning (100 deaths first two years)
Trade Unions feared women would be a threat to male wages
Manufacturing reluctant to allow women to join
Government munitions factories employed solely women
800,000 women in engineering industries
Bus conductors, postal workers, farm labourers, coal delivery
1.6 Million women in war work
Women's volunteer police service in most major cities