During World War II, dozens of women Cambridge University students worked around the clock in complete secrecy to crack Nazi ...

The demands of the war economy meant that old prejudices about what females could and should do were cast aside in the name of patriotism. Women were encouraged to join the war effort in factories ...

Women At War (or Les Combattantes, if you prefer) is one of the Top 10 shows on Netflix in the UK right now. Here’s what you need to know about the French wartime drama. Netflix’s All Quiet On ...

Roles traditionally reserved for men, such as loading coal onto trucks, harvesting wheat and working on railways, were taken up by women. The Imperial War Museum in London is paying tribute to ...

The work undertaken by women during World War One put increased ... This week, Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron said the UK wouldn't block arms exports to Israel. Seema Misra was eight weeks ...

Immortalised in war posters emblazoned with the words, “We Can Do It!” and “Your Country Needs You”, women raised families single-handedly, ran factories, drove ambulances, and built ...

During World War Two, tens of thousands of British women and girls volunteered for farm work to produce vital food supplies. Even with rationing, Britain was in danger of running out of food ...

is just one group of women who are celebrated at the Women and War exhibition which opened yesterday at the Imperial War Museum. The mixed memorabilia exhibition tells the experiences of women in ...

MRS JOHNSON: With this war on, everyone’s got to do their bit. A bit makes it sound like something small, something easy. With so many men away to fight, us women have got to do way more than a bit.

The German war effort saw women joining the production line in ... An American locomotive, one of the first batch to arrive in the United Kingdom for many years, is seen being cleaned by a team ...

For example, mandatory military service in the UK was only ... However women only began to appear regularly in combat or frontline roles in the context of the current war in Gaza, and most of ...

Calling all Women of the Second World War. For my University Dissertation I am writing about how the Second World War affected the lives of women in Britain. I am looking at their jobs as ...