Description
Women’s War memorabilia pack
Description
A collection of high quality reproduction paper memorabilia from WW 2.
Contents relate to a woman’s experience of the War. A fantastic educational aid.
The Women’s War memorabilia pack recreates the women’s wartime experience with high quality reproduced paper memorabilia.
Packaged in a clear bag with header card.
Memorabilia Pack Contents
- Life in the WRNS booklet
- Home Companion magazine
- Personal ephemera
- Land Army flyer
- Wartime recipes
- ‘A Womans Place’ pamphlet
- Various images
Women at War:
World War 2 was a prime reason for a major change in the world of work for women, as the men go off to fight and the women fill the jobs of the men in “men’s jobs”
March 1941 onwards saw women sign up for war work.
Jobs undertaken by women because men had gone to fight in WW2
- mechanics
- engineers
- Tank drivers
- Building ships
- Working in factories – making bombs and aircraft parts
- Air raid wardens
- Driving fire engines
- Plumbers
- Ambulance drivers
- WRVS volunteers
- Nurses
Women were required by the government to work.
Huge numbers of women were involved in the war effort and many joined the armed forces even though they did not have to:
- 640,000 in the armed forces;
- 55,000 serving with guns and providing essential air defence;
- 80,000 thousand in the Land Army;
- plus many more who flew unarmed aircraft, drove ambulances, worked as nurses and worked behind enemy lines in the European resistance.
