Jobs Collection

Police Recruitment Sign
Metropolitan Police recruitment poster for more police, offering a job or career in the police force

Employees - Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA
The 36, 000 Employees of the Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA pose for a group photograph in front of the factory buildings

Good jobs. Good money. Good times. Colour photolithograph recruiting poster published by Her Majesty?s Stationery Office, 1973. Printed by Impress Limited, 1973

Wartime poster, Comrades in Arms! Britain and the USSR. Showing the British and Soviet Russian flags flying side by side. A message below says: British Women! You can win this war

World War Two recruitment poster
Poster from the Second World War encouraging women to join the Royal Observer Corps

National Service Wwi
Poster recruiting women to work as clerks and administrative support to the British Army in France during World War One

Women workers, World War I
British women aeroplane workers in the Midlands, acetylene welding frame lugs for planes during World War I

West Midlands Pepper Street Staffordshire May
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WW1 - Home Front - The Queens Work for Women Fund
After the outbreak of WW1, many women in the textile and clothing industry had lost their jobs as export markets closed, posing a direct threat to their job prospects

The Cricketer. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1964. Date: 1964

London Life front cover, March 1966 - The Things London Girl
Front cover of London Life magazine with the provocative headline, " The Things London Girls Do for Money" and a photograph of a flirtatious woman called Marilyn Rugg with impressively

WW2 Poster -- Join the ATS
Fill his place in jobs like these Join the ATS. Colour photolithograph recruitment poster, artist unknown, published by HMSO. Showing a cook, a clerk, a typist and a driver. Date: 1940

Lloyd Georges Munition Girls
Front cover of a book describing womens experiences in a munitions factory during the First World War with a detailed account by an anonymous female shell-maker

The Cross Country Runner. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1968. Date: 1968

The old city bellman, Norwich
Photograph of an old city bellman in Norwich, UK 1905

Poster: Simple jobs boys can do themselves, and so help win the war. 1940s

Ministry of Labour poster
Poster for the Ministry of Labour, encouraging people to use the Employment Exchange Service for all agricultural jobs

Women workers, World War I
Women workers packing fuse heads in the Coventry Ordnance Works during World War I

The Lifeboat Men. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1966. Date: 1966

Cartoon, Waitress, WW1
Cartoon, Waitress, showing a pretty young woman in a white apron serving a beer to a French soldier in uniform. Date: 1915

Women as electricians WWI
Women in London electric station. During World War One there seemed to be no limit to the number of civilian occupations that women showed themselves cabable of replacing men

French parcel delivery man at Christmas, 1913
A busy parcel delivery man in Paris seen hard at work during the Christmas season. Attched to one of the big magasins or department stores, he is loaded with parcels and packages up to his chin

NUPE members protesting against cuts, Coventry
Striking NUPE (National Union of Public Employees) members protesting against proposed council cuts outside Whitley Abbey Comprehensive School, Coventry, 10 November 1981. Date: 1981

Norah Blaney working on a dust-cart in WWII
Actress, singer and variety star, Norah Blaney (Mrs Basil Hughes), driving on a dust-cart and collecting refuse for Basildon Council as part of the war effort during the Second World War. Date: 1940

The Newsagent. People You See, from Teddy Bear magazine, 1965. Date: 1965

Lady Alexandra Haig (1907-1997), daughter of Field Marshal Earl Haig, on duty with the Voluntary Aid Detatchment (VAD). Date: 1940

Lady Olein Wyndham-Quin (1892-1969) working as an administrator for the Red Cross. Date: 1940

Red Cross enquirers
Enquirers being interviewed in the Red Cross reception room. Date: 1940

Red Cross records room
Workers in the Red Cross records room. Date: 1940

Auxiliary firewoman
Mrs Aird, on duty in the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS) which was founded in 1938. Date: 1939

War work for women
Miss Kay Charles, member of the Mechanised Transport Training Corps, who are on the look out for more female motor cyclists

An illustrated checklist of home maintenance tasks for the summer months. Date: 1954

People campaigning against cuts, Ilford, Essex
People campaigning against cuts in education and social services, Ilford, Essex, 28 May 1976. Date: 1976

Employment protest, Liverpool
Employment protest in Liverpool, 17 March 1979. Those taking part include Dunlop workers, Tate & Lyle workers, and members of the National Union of Seamen. Date: 1979

LSO musicians supporting BBC musicians, London
London Symphony Orchestra musicians supporting BBC musicians outside Broadcasting House, London, 27 June 1980. The strike by BBC musicians began when the BBC put forward plans to discontinue five

Dispute Disputes Protest Protesting Industrial
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Babcock and Wilcox workers, Renfrew plant, Scotland
Babcock and Wilcox workers at the Renfrew plant, Scotland, during a mass meeting as part of an employment dispute. Date: circa 1970

Members of NUTGW campaigning
Members of NUTGW (National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers), NATSOPA (National Society of Operative Printers and Assistants)

Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Spanish farmer, drawing by Victorio Macho published in the magazine Madrid (1937). Drawing

Peoples March for Jobs 1983
The Peoples March for Jobs, organised by the Trades Union Congress, reaches London in early June 1983. It had set off from Glasgow on 23 April Date: 3 June 1983

People's March for Jobs 1981 Petition
At 10 Downing Street, thousands of petition forms are handed in to Ian Gow, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's parliamentary private secretary, by Eric Varley, Labour MP for Chesterfield

People's March for Jobs 1981
The People's March for Jobs, which set off from Liverpool on 1st May 1981 to highlight the plight of the unemployed. The core group of 500 was joined each day by many more

American Folk Singer Concert Brockwell Park March
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George Melly
Jazz and blues singer George Melly (1926 - 2007) performs at the free concert held in Brockwell Park, south east London, in support of the 500 marchers who had walked from Liverpool to London

Norman Tebbit -- satirical comment
A group of people on a Right to Work demonstration, with a satirical comment on the words of the Conservative politician Norman Tebbit to the unemployed to "Get on yer bike

Ken Livingstone with The Flying Pickets
Ken Livingstone (Kenneth Robert Livingstone, b 1945), British Labour politician. Seen here in front of the GLC premises at County Hall, London, with the Flying Pickets

Comic postcard, Two men and a dog Date: 20th century

WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A Mans Job
The Caption is A Mans job. Women filled so many jobs while the men were away. There is a series of photos showing King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at a balloon site

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