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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...

• The Key to the Situation

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1915

  whole: the image occupies the majority, set against a yellow background and held within a narrow black border and a wide red border. The title is separate and positioned on the red border across the top edge and the bottom edge, in white. The text is...

• A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London, 1918

  (art) Made by: Airy, Anna 1918

  image: The interior view of a shell forge showing the glowing hot shell cases emerging from the furnaces on the left of the composition. Munitions workers man the furnaces on the left; in the foreground is the back of a worker leaning over a glowing hot...

• A Two Year-old Steel Works, 1918 : erected during the War for Messrs. Steel, Peech and Tozer, Ltd., Phoenix Works, Sheffield

  (art) Made by: Holmes, Charles John (Sir) 1918

  image: A view of a steel works that sits next to a river or canal. Directly on the river bank is a box-like concrete building and a long redbrick wall, with men at work on a scaffold at the side of the building. Behind this scene is a large building with...

• The Steel Converter at Woolwich Arsenal: The Tropenas Steel Converters at work in the Royal Laboratory Shell Foundry at Woolwich Arsenal

  (art) Made by: Hyde, William 1919

  image: The interior scene of a steelworks showing molten steel being poured out from a furnace. Steelworkers are handling red-hot shell casings in the lower left foreground.

• A Tug Of War. Girls v Men : Gordon, Watney & Co., Aeronautical Engineers, Weybridge

  (art) Made by: Isaac, Nellie E

  image: a team of eight women dressed in blue work dresses and caps pull on a tug-of-war rope. A young man urges them on, while a young boy and girl watch from behind a barrier. In the background a crowd watches in front of two marquees.

• Behind The Scenes in the Canteen Theatre. Waiting in the Wings : Gordon, Watney & Co., Aeronautical Engineers, Weybridge

  (art) Made by: Isaac, Nellie E

  image: six costumed women stand and sit in the theatre wings looking onto the stage, waiting to perform. Two men stand to the left, one holding a black cat prop by the tail.

• At A Performance in the Canteen Theatre : Gordon, Watney & Co., Aeronautical Engineers, Weybridge

  (art) Made by: Isaac, Nellie E

  image: rows of female munitions workers sit and watch a theatre performance in a large hall. The stage is shown in the left background with two women performing.

• Women's Canteen at Phoenix Works, Bradford

  (art) Made by: Lion, Flora 1918

  image: The interior of a canteen filled with female workers. There is a counter to the right of the composition, and tables occupied with women in overalls and cloth caps to the left. There is a queue at the counter, with several women holding large...

• Building Flying-Boats

  (art) Made by: Lion, Flora 1918

  image: The interior of an assembly shed at an aircraft factory. On the left is an aircraft under construction. In the right of the composition workers stand at benches planing and fixing pieces for the aircraft. Their jackets are hung on pegs on the...