Roles Collection (page 5)

Garments for Women Who Work, WW1
First World War advertisement for clothing from Mrs Oliver Ltd of 39 Old Bond Street, featuring some suggested, garments for women who work

WW1 - Restive allies - The central powers not to happy
WW1 - A comedic scenerio depicting Austrias and Turkeys roles in the war as part of the central power. The illustration represents the German Kaiser as an Ancient Roman in his chariot

Potez 6311 -the French built over 700 to fill various roles including fighters, light bomber and reconnaissance Underpowered they were ready prey to German fighters

Womens Emergency Corps making toys, WW1
Members of the Womens Emergency Corps learning to make toys in September 1914. Before the war, Germany was the main exporter of toys to Britain but a number of voluntary organisations

Women gunnery opticians, Illustrated War News, WW1
Women gunnery " opticians". Learning gun-sight lens making at Northampton Institute during the First World War. Date: 1917

Care of the Bus Conductress, WW1
A female bus conductor working for the London General Omnibus Company during the First World War, pictured seated on a special platform installed to allow for a rest on long journeys about the city

Musical Chairs: A little party at Downing Street
Politicians swap their various roles in government as if playing a game of musical chairs. Date: 1916

Girls at work making ammunition boxes, WW1
Young women manufacturing ammunition boxes, fixing together the dovetailed pieces at an unidentified British factory during the First World War. Date: 1915

2 Plain, 1 Purl, WW1 knitting cartoon
Cartoon by Stan Terry in The Tatler showing two plain old ladies and one pretty purl of a young woman all sat knitting comforts for troops at the Front. Date: 1917

Business as Usual revue - Knitting and Sewing scene
A scene from Business as Usual a new revue at the London Hippodrome with a vicar addressing a group of ladies who are knitting and sewing comforts for troops. Date: 1914

Herbert Tree and Mrs Patrick Campbell in Pygmalion, 1914
Impression of Sir Herbert Tree in the role of Professor Higgins, and Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle in the George Bernard Shaw play, Pygmalion

Pygmalion drawn by Tony Sarg
Scenes from Pygmalion, the play by George Bernard Shaw which opened at His Majestys Theatre in London on 11 April 1914. The sketches drawn by Tony Sarg show the various characters including Mrs

Scene from Pygmalion by Tony Sarg
Sir Herbert Tree in the role of Professor Higgins and Mrs Patrick Campbell as Eliza Doolittle in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion which opened in London at His Majestys Theatre on 11 April 1914

Edmund Gurney as Alfred Doolittle in Pygmalion
Edmund Gurney in the role of Alfred Doolittle in George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion which first opened in London on 11 April 1914 starring Mrs Patrick Campbell and Sir Herbert Tree as Eliza Doolittle

Cartoon, Kaiser Kabot, WW1
Cartoon, Kaiser Kabot (Kaiser Wilhelm II, the ham actor), showing the German Kaiser in four different theatrical roles: ignoring treaties, being deceitful, involved in litigation, and as Tartuffe

Bureaucratic staff in ministries in 1919
A diagram showing the inflation in temporary and female personnel in various Ministries in Westminster and Whitehall necessitated by the First World War

VIZCAINO, Sebastiᮠ(1548-1623). Conquistador whose
VIZCAINO, Sebastiᮠ (1548-1623). Conquistador whose varied roles took him to New Spain, the Philippines, the Baja California peninsula, the California coast and Japan. Painting. MEXICO

WW1 knitting song music sheet - I m Knitting a Rosary
Front cover of a music sheet for a knitting-themed song - I m Knitting a Rosary, - words by Robert Levenson and music by Vincent Plunkett

Pears Soap Advertisement, WW1 - munitions worker
Advertisement for the famous Pears soap, the first in their Womanhood in War-Time series. No. 1 is My Lady of Munitions and features a munitions worker or munitionette in uniform at a wash bowl. 1917

The Last Tea by Higgins
Swiftly fled each honey d hour Spent with military male; Metropole became a bower Cecil an Arcadian vale. A rather mournful female clerical worker or secretary takes her last cup of tea of her

Dolly Goes Back to the Land, land girl, WW1
An attractive young woman posed with a spade on a farm, part of the female agricultural workforce during the First World War - though her outfit does not suggest shes a member of the Womens Land

Munitions Girl by Helen McKie
Look at the girls who REALLY work To strafe the German and the Turk - The girls who slave at making shells And scorn the screeds of H. G

Geraldine Hedges, Transport Officer in the Balkans, WW1
Geraldine Hedges, Chief Transport Officer in charge of the motor column for the Elsie Inglis unit of the Scottish Womens Hospital in the Balkans during the First World War

A Countess Gave me a cup of tea, WW1 soldier & canteen
A First World War soldier received a cup of tea from an aristocratic lady in a nurses uniform. Canteening was one of the favourite voluntary occupations of well-born women during the Great War

Land girls on a Surrey farm, WW1
A group of cheery land girls taking a break from work on a Surrey farm in 1917. The Bystander magazine, in which this photograph was published, comments

Sock darning by men, WW1
A middle-aged man employed in darning a sock and rocking a baby - a reversal of roles during the First World War. Date: 1917

WW1 knitting booklet, The Higbee Company
The Knitting Needle has again come into its own. Front cover of a small booklet published by the Higbee Company (USA) containing patterns for knitting comforts for troops during the First World War

Vinolia WW1 advertisement, women war workers
Advertisement for Royal Vinolia Cream, for the woman workers toilet during the First World War and featuring a nurse in uniform applying the cream before her shift. 1917

Women drivers of the RAF, WW1
Drivers roll call at a south London garage of the Royal Air Force. The women are pictured lined up in khaki uniform. Date: 1918

Women workers WW1 - procession of homage at Palace
Nearly three thousand women workers representing practically every organised branch of womens labour during the First World War and wearing the uniforms of their corps and trades

Women workers manufacturing synthetic phenol, WW1
Women munition workers testing the temperature of phenol as it runs into drums during the production of explosives. Date: 1918

Womens Land Army rally in Lincoln, WW1
A rally of women landworkers at Lincoln in 1918 during which many new recruits were obtained. Wounded soldiers helped the girls carry their recruiting banners. Date: 1918

Overalls for Women Workers, WW1
The Agricola outfit - strong, serviceable, well cut and becoming - idea for women workers on the land and available from the Cleveland Manufacturing Company. Date: 1918

Munitions workers waiting for the tea hooter, WW1
Women munitions workers outside the National Control Canteen, run by female volunteers, waiting for the tea hooter to sound

Staff of the Soldiers Free Buffet at Charing Cross, WW1
Female staff of the Soldiers Free Buffet at Charing Cross Station, set up, along with similar buffets at other London terminus

Advert for Peter Robinsons practical garment
The land for the Land. Ideal skirt for gardening, agricultural and general country wear, made in Khaki water proofed dungarine fitted with huge pockets. 1916

Tea Time in Dining Hall of National Control Canteen, WW1
Female munitions workers in the dining hall of the National Control Canteen, run by voluntary lady workers to provide cheap, nutritious meals for employees. Date: 1916

A woman tractor driver during WW1
A woman tractor driver at Wye in Kent oiling a government tractor during the First World War, one of the numerous traditionally male roles taken on by women during the conflict. Date: 1918

Beechams Pills advert with land girl, WW1
That cheerful spirit! Which goes hand in hand with Beechams Pills. A land girl cheerily shovelling what looks like manure during the First World War - all carried out without complaint thanks to

Training munition workers at Shoreditch Technical Institute
Scenes showing the training of munition workers at Shoreditch Technical Institute (run by London County Council) during the First World War

Women working at Prisoners of War Information Bureau, WW1
Women working at the offices of the Prisoners of War Information Bureau, located at 49 Wellington Street, Strand, where are record of all British soldiers who were prisoners of war in Germany were

Woman motor driver teaching soldier to drive, WW1
A new driver in the Army Motor Transport section being taught to steer by a female instructor during the First World War. A school to teach women driving and car mechanics was established by the Hon

Women at a car mechanics class, WW1
Women at a school in London established by Gabrielle Borthwick (daughter of the late Baron Borthwick) where driving and mechanics were taught during the First World War

Women being trained at an L. C. C. technical college, WW1
Women and men together studying the theory of machine tool using at the Shoreditch Technical Institute during the First World War

Women Gardeners at Windsor, WW1
One of the four women gardeners employed at Windsor Castle during the First World War, pictured opening the top-lights in the glass-houses

Students at a school for women chemists, WW1
Women at a London County Council school in Hammersmith, training in chemistry following the acceptance of women dispensers by the Army medical authorities during the First World War

Changes in Whitehall, WW1 cartoon
Cartoon demonstrating the changes at Whitehall during the First World War, when women replaced men in most of the clerical roles, and the war necessitated the War Offices expansion. Date: 1916

VAD matron and nurses at a French hospital, WW1
A group of VAD nurses, attached to the St Johns Ambulance Assocation, pictured at a hospital in France where they had been since the outbreak of war. The nurses wear arm brassards with the St

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