When We Build Again (1943)
Section from the film 'When We Build Again', commissioned by the Cadburys firm and narrated by Dylan Thomas, discussing the various types of housing the working-class servicemen were returning to after ...
William Mills (1856-1932)
Although William Mills is famous as the Birmingham inventor and engineer who developed the hand grenade familiarly known to First World War British soldiers as the 'Mills Bomb', he was born in Sunderland ...
Win the War Day
This photograph of workers from Kynoch Limited in a tableau was taken for ‘Win the War Day’ on 21 September 1918. The group includes a black woman.
Kynoch & Co. opened a factory to manufacture ammunition ...
Women Workers at Mills Munitions Factory
This photograph shows women manufacturing grenade base plugs at the Mills Munitions factory in Birmingham. Soon after the outbreak of war it had become common for ‘an engineering shop to be staffed almost ...
World War 1 recruitment poster
Poster depicting the destruction wrought by the German naval bombardment of Scarborough on December 16, 1914.
Home held a powerful symbolism during World War 1. Men went to the Front to fight in defence ...
Young girls employed at Mills Munitions Works