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• The 'L' Press. Forging the Jacket of an 18-inch Gun: Armstrong-Whitworth Works, Openshaw, 1918

  (art) Made by: Airy, Anna 1918

  image: The interior view of a munitions factory showing the manufacture of 18' guns with munition workers. A figure in suit and bowler hat stands in the foreground. There is a warm orange light spread over the scene emitted from the forge in the right of...

• Manchester Workers' Week

  (posters) Made by: Unknown 1918-01

  whole: the main image is arranged across the top and on the right-hand side, with a smaller image positioned upper left. The title and text are placed on the left and along the bottom. image: main image of workers filing out of a factory, headed by a...

• War Weapons Campaign

  (posters) Made by: Unknown 1918

  whole: three images are placed across the top, with the main title below, followed by subtitles and text. All surrounded by a orange and purple border. image: left to right: the guns of a warship pointing broadside, to the left; a lion's head and paws...

• To Raise Three-and-a-Half Millions

  (posters) Made by: Unknown

  whole: the title and text are arranged in banner form, in black against white. The image is positioned across the top, above the text. image: entitled 'The Convoy', a destroyer in the foreground right, escorting three merchant ships. Beyond a second...

• LEISURE AND ENTERTAINMENT DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "FIRST WORLD WAR WOMENS WAR WORK COLLECTION" (photographs)

  The Home Front: A group of women workers at the British Oil Cake Company, Manchester take a tea break. Leisure opportunities such as this for women during working hours became increasingly limited as war progressed and placed a great strain on their...

• WOMEN IN INDUSTRY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, c 1918

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P 1918

  A portrait of a woman at work as she canters studded tread on tyres at the Charles Mackintosh rubber factory in Manchester.

• WOMEN RAILWAY WORKERS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "FIRST WORLD WAR WOMENS WAR WORK COLLECTION" (photographs) 1917

  Station Mistress and two porters at Irlams O'th Height Station, Manchester, on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway.

• WOMEN IN INDUSTRY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, LANCASHIRE, c 1918

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P 1918

  A group of women wave their arms cheerfully in the air as they stand outside the glucose factory of Messrs Nicholls, Nagel and Co Ltd in Trafford Park, Lancashire. They wear sacking skirts and most have bare feet.

• WOMEN IN INDUSTRY DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR, MANCHESTER, c 1918

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION FIRST WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Lewis G P 1918

  Two women oil workers sew up bags for compound nuts at the British Oil and Cake Mills Ltd, Manchester. The sacks are printed with the letters 'BO&CM' and the words 'Dairy Nuts'.

• WOMEN RAILWAY WORKERS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

  part of "FIRST WORLD WAR WOMENS WAR WORK COLLECTION" (photographs) 1917

  A maintenance worker employed by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway oils machinery at the company's Oldham Road goods warehouse.