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1909: #Bermondsey women stop work & eyeball the photographer
In the soldering section of a tin box factory (likely to be Peek Freans) #WorldPhotographyDay
More on the often dangerous work of tin box makers in our 'sweated trades' digitised collection https://t.co/OECL2OZE56
In 1938 the Trades Union Congress launched its Youth Charter for improved employment conditions
Publicity material (featuring glaring youth campaigners) is included in https://t.co/C1CHMs8gQx #InternationalYouthDay
A booklet for US soldiers & sailors arriving in 1940s Britain explaining about food & clothing restrictions, the currency & mail rates to the USA. There's even a list of unfamiliar British words. From MSS.420/BS/7/16/17 (Brewers Society Archives) https://t.co/KlhLfRwasl #WW2
"If another man should go,
What about the GPO?"
Women workers greeted with limited enthusiasm by the Postmen's Federation, as conscription started to bite in 1916 #NationalPostalWorkerDay
(from https://t.co/cKNzZwlFEX)
The "Deptford uprising" & more...
Working lives of women in the early 20th century seen through our #MRCTradeBoards digitisation project
Archives about tin box workers newly uploaded! Find out more at https://t.co/OECL2OZE56
Its 200 years since Queen Victoria's birth. ‘Her Majesty’s Jubilee Album of Arts and Industries of Great Britain’ held at the MRC celebrated firms operating in the 50th year of her reign incl. a London photographic apparatus manufacturer. Come and take a look! Qto Ref T26.G7.
"Slap bang. Here we are again!"
More #MRCTradeBoards documents digitised & uploaded! - you can now explore conditions for laundry workers in the early 20th century at https://t.co/tsxfQxpkyo
Featuring #EllenWilkinson, unexpected use of childhood slang & a case of malaria
From the idealism of unity out of the ashes of war to decades of arguments over 'in or out', MRC archive collections provide evidence on Britain's relationship with the rest of Europe since 1945 #EuropeDay
Find out more in our online guide to sources - https://t.co/0viFBhYNeF
""Rational" or ridiculous?"
Two opposing #Victorian views on #WomenInTrousers - mockery from magazine 'Fun' & marketing opportunity for Dunlop Tyres #Archive30 #fashion
(both images from https://t.co/2yZomhiTGW)
Adoption and the work of @barnardos as seen by a 1948 watercolourist
These sketches (made on the back of wallpaper) are included in the archives of pioneering social worker Dame Eileen Younghusband - https://t.co/G0ji2zKfGy
#Archive30 #Colours #histchild