#Munitionettes

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Canary Girls by Jennifer Chiaverini #AudiobookReview #BookReview #WisconsinAuthor #HistoricalFiction #WorldWarI #WilliamMorrow #HarperAudio #August2023Books

Once again, #WisconsinAuthor #JenniferChiaverini has hit a home run with her latest #historicalfiction book, #CanaryGirls, about the women working in munitions factories during #WWI #BookReview #audiobookreview #harperaudio #bargainsleuth #newbooks

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiaverini’s lively and illuminating novel about the “munitionettes” who built bombs in Britain’s arsenals during World War I, risking their lives for the war effort and discovering camaraderie and courage on the soccer pitch. Early in the Great War, men left Britain’s factories in droves to enlist.…

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A munitionette, Kathleen Nolan, presses a driving band onto a shell in the National Shell Factory at Parkgate Street, Dublin, during the First World War.

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Female munitions workers stacking shell castings at a British shell filling factory.

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British women who died on August 9, 1917, in an explosion at a chemical works. Female “munitionettes” produced 80% of the British army’s weapons and shells. More than 200 died during the war due to fires, explosions, TNT poisoning, or other dangers of their work.

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lauren i love u so much…..ur genuinely one of the funniest people i know and u and ola saved my life in the hbo war fandom….i will always die for u

[celiajohnson]

Cashmore & Johnson were back at Rotherwas Munitions factory today to be interviewed by Nicola Goodwin for BBC Hereford and Worcester.  Really pleased that our initial response to the site and in remembrance of the Canary Girls might help to bring attention to BBC Hereford and Worcester’s campaign to get official recognition for the munitionettes who worked at Rotherwas.  More C&J work there is in development……...

[theworldofwars]

A female British munitions worker makes shells for the soldiers fighting at the front during WW1. 950,000 women worked in dangerous munitions factories such as this, producing 80% of the UK's armaments and were known as 'Munitionettes' or canaries, due to the yellowing effects that working with sulphur had on the skin.

[georgefairbrother]

A clip from the award-winning 1996 BBC-Imperial War Museum documentary The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century, narrated by Judi Dench.

This segment discusses 'munitionettes'; the women who worked at Woolwich Arsenal. They were well paid, which created some resentment within the civilian population, but faced insidious, debilitating dangers over and above the obvious.

[the-web-of-iris]

Whoo this is Nuria,a woman who was once a Munitionette in the first great war,but is now still churning out the weapons as a desolation avatar

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Women's History Month

Women’s History Month

As March is Women’s History Month, here are some of the previous entries we have done regarding women and their place in British history:

https://enoughofthistomfoolery.wordpress.com/2015/04/24/an-american-at-kenwood-transatlantic-marriages-in-the-gilded-age/

https://enoughofthistomfoolery.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/debs-delight-what-being-presented-and-the-season-was-really-like/

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Munitionettes working at the Lyddite Filling House, No. 14 National Filling Factory, Hereford.

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“We take single-sex public toilets for granted today. It is hard to believe that when public conveniences were first constructed, the vast majority of these toilets were just for men.

The story in Britain starts in 1851, as the Great Exhibition show-cased the first public flushing toilet, created by George Jennings, who was a plumber from Brighton. The popularity of this invention was such that the first public lavatories opened the following year and were known as ‘Public Waiting Rooms’. The vast majority of these were men’s conveniences.

In the mid-19th century, many areas of life were sex-segregated and gendered; the private sphere was for the women, the public sphere was for men. Whilst working-class women did undertake plenty of work, they did not own their own wages, their husbands did. The popular image of a woman was the ‘Angel in the House’ ideal, a woman who was devoted and submissive to her husband.

In Victorian Britain, most public toilets were designed for men. Of course, this affected women’s ability to leave the home, as women who wished to travel had to plan their route to include areas where they could relieve themselves. Thus, women never travelled much further than where family and friends resided. This is often called the ‘urinary leash’, as women could only go so far as their bladders would allow them.

This lack of access to toilets impeded women’s access to public spaces as there were no women’s toilets in the work place or anywhere else in public. This led to the formation of the Ladies Sanitary Association, organised shortly after the creation of the first public flushing toilet. The Association campaigned from the 1850s onwards, through lectures and the distribution of pamphlets on the subject. They succeeded somewhat, as a few women’s toilets opened in Britain.

Then a second group emerged called the Union of Women’s Liberal and Radical Associations, which campaigned for working class women to have public toilets in Camden. In 1898 the members wrote to The Vestry in Camden for toilet access for women in the already existing men’s toilets. However, the plans for a women’s toilet were set back by several years as men opposed the women’s toilets being situated next to the men’s.

In some cases, plans for women’s toilets were deliberately sabotaged. When a model of a women’s toilet was set up on the pavement in Camden High Street, hansom cabs (driven by men) deliberately drove into the model toilet to demonstrate that it was situated in a most inconvenient position!

Demands for public toilets arose against the backdrop of a desire for better sanitation, which resulted in legislation being passed by Parliament in the form of two public health acts, the First Public Health Act of 1848 and the Second Public Health Act of 1875. The 1848 act was passed in the wake of a cholera outbreak that killed 52,000 people and the Act provided a framework for local authorities to follow; however it did not stipulate that the authorities had to act. The later 1875 Public Health Act allowed local authorities new powers such as being able to purchase, create and repair sewers, and to control water supplies.

However, there came a pivotal moment when women really did need to use the toilet.

Suffragettes are famous for campaigning for the right to vote but they also campaigned for the right to serve, achieved in 1915. By the end of World War One, over 700,000 to 1 million women had become ‘munitionettes’, slang for women who had gone into munition factory work to support the war effort.

However, as women were now entering previously male-dominated professions, they began to campaign for better facilities such as changing rooms and toilets. Some employers did not want to install women’s toilets, especially after the war, as they believed that women were stealing men’s employment: quite legal at the time, as there were only limited protections for workers.

Nowadays however, under the 1992 Workplace Regulations, not ensuring that men and women have separate toilet facilities is illegal for employers.

Women’s public toilets have always been somewhat political, either through moral objections, such as the Victorian ideal of a submissive, house-chained wife, or through the fact that women have campaigned for them. And the politics of women’s toilets is still present today within society: for example, UNESCO recommends single-sex toilets in order to boost women’s access to education. In Mumbai in India, there are fewer toilets for women than for men, and women must also pay more than men to use the facilities. This has led to the ‘Right to Pee’ campaign promoted by Indian feminists.”

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Make Love Your Goal

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by lionswench

When the arrogant, widely-reviled and recently-relieved war veteran Jaime Lannister starts pulling the reins at his father's factory, he finds himself tiptoeing around the ire that munitionette Brienne Tarth seems to reserve only for him.

Careful to contain the explosive potential between the two of them, Jaime gradually begins to win Brienne over with a little help from the beautiful game. If a war can momentarily cease for a bit of football, surely a bit of workplace bickering can too, right?

A retelling of the history of Dick, Kerr Ladies FC with slightly less football, and many more feelings.

Words: , Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Game of Thrones (TV)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: F/M

Characters: Jaime Lannister, Brienne of Tarth, Selwyn Tarth, Catelyn Tully Stark, Podrick Payne, Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Tyrion Lannister, Olenna Tyrell, Margaery Tyrell, Tywin Lannister

Relationships: Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth

Additional Tags: Alternative Universe - WW1 Era, Alternative Universe - Women's football, That's soccer, not American football, Apologies, Inspired by Real Events, To An Extent, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Eventual Smut, Happy Ending, Soft Jaime Lannister, Oblivious Brienne of Tarth

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Information Dump 5 - Women in War

ID: 5 Level: Higher (National 6) Topic: Why Women Got the Vote in 1928 Broader Section: Britain 1851-1951 Factor: Women in War (Factor 5) Note on text: Normal text is knowledge, italicised is Analysis and bolded is Evaluation. These are all important in constructing an essay so if you’re taking notes separate them with highlighter colours or write at the side of your book a K, A or E so you know! Bold and italics is Historiography.

Britain declared war on Germany on the 4th August 1914, the NUWSS (Suffragists) suspending campaigning along with the WSPU (Suffragettes) immediately. During the war women took on very male dominated roles, including those in Government, Post Office work, Clerks in business, public transport and as land workers.

The most famous of these workers were “Munitionettes” a name given to those working in factories creating bombs and other weaponry for the war effort. Over the course of the war over 950,000 women were employed in the factories, with Politicians being quick to praise them. Overall, Munitionettes, along with the other roles they worked, helped to change the way that women were perceived greatly; it can also be argued that the war sped up the process of women getting the vote.

After gaining the vote, Politicians put it down to women “earning it” during their efforts for the war, however this was contradicted by the fact that the vote did not go to many of the women who were working. The law put in place allowed those over 30 to vote and younger working-class women largely missed out on this as they would also have to be married to someone who owned property. It wouldn’t be until 1928 that all women got the vote.

A.J.P. Taylor argues that “war smoothed the way for democracy – it is one of the few things to be said in its favour.”

Constance Rover argues that the war was important because it saw women being opening praised and a change in public opinion became clear; public opinion became overwhelmingly favourable towards women.

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What wartime ‘munitionettes’ can teach us about burnout - BBC Worklife

What wartime ‘munitionettes’ can teach us about burnout – BBC Worklife

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