Recommended Reading & Watching

  • “A day in the life of a munitions worker”, IWM Blog <https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-munitions-worker>

  • Administrator, Mutiny: Hidden Histories of Black British Soldiers in WWI, History Workshop (2020) * Also a documentary series!

  • Diane Atkinson, Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the suffragettes (Bloomsbury, 2018)

  • Stephen Bourne, Black Poppies (History Press, 2014)

  • “Boy (1st Class) John ‘Jack’ Travers Cornwell VC”, IWM Blog <https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/boy-1st-class-john-jack-travers-cornwell-vc>

  • Emily Hamer, Britannia's Glory: A History of Twentieth Century Lesbians (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)

  • Lucy Inglis, "Elsie Inglis, the suffragette physician", The Lancet (2014)

  • Rebecca Jennings, A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500 (Greenwood, 2007)

  • Morag Miller et al, As Good as Any Man (The History Press, 2014)

  • Wendy Moore, Jack and Eve (Atlantic, 2024)

  • Dr Gillian Murphy, “Vera “Jack” Holme”, LSE Blog <https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2017/03/15/vera-jack-holme-one-of-the-stars-of-the-womens-library-collection/>

  • Ray Rimell, The Airship VC: the life of Captain William Leefe Robinson (1989)

  • “The First World War soldiers who were deliberately forgotten”, IWM Youtube <https://youtu.be/i6D5oJsNSCk?si=T98dm_hAeAwy0bA->

  • Voices of the First World War, IWM Podcast series.

  • “What was the Battle of Jutland”, IWM Blog < https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-battle-of-jutland>

  • “Women Workers WW1”, Royal Arsenal History <https://www.royal-arsenal-history.com/royal-arsenal-women-workers.html>

Images

  • Archive Box Photograph [home page], taken by author at the Women’s Library, LSE, 04/07/25.

  • Archive picture of Arthur [About page], taken by author at the Imperial War Museum Archive, 24/06/25.

  • Arthur’s Boat Model, Queen Mary, from Morag Miller et al, As Good as Any Man (The History Press, 2014)

  • Arthur’s Illustrations, from Morag Miller et al, As Good as Any Man (The History Press, 2014)

  • Boy Cornwell, VC, at The Battle of Jutland, 1916, The Armoury St James’.

  • Box Shop and Packers at the Royal Arsenal, c.1917, Royal Arsenal History, <https://www.royal-arsenal-history.com/royal-arsenal-women-workers.html>

  • Brian Carrol, Royal Aircraft Be2c Biplane at Shuttleworth Air Show, Old Warden, Bedfordshire, E PhotoZine, <https://www.ephotozine.com/photo/royal-aircraft-factory-be2c-biplane-55170938>

  • Daily Mirror Cover with Jack Cornwell, BBC Bitesize <https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zhvqf4j#zwwhhcw>

  • Funeral Jack Cornwell 29 07 1916, Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Funeral_Jack_Cornwell_29_07_1916.png>

  • Hoggs at Royal Arsenal c.1916, Royal Arsenal, <https://www.royal-arsenal-history.com/royal-arsenal-women-workers.html>

  • HMS Chester, showing damage sustained at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916, IWM (SP 1587)

  • In aid of the "Jack Cornwell" Ward at the Star & Garter Home, c.1916, stamp, Wellcome Collection, EPH/2/83.

  • Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson Postcard, Getty Images, Licensed by Google.

  • Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson, Wikimedia Commons <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LeefeRobinson1.jpg>

  • Mrs Caroline Rennles (nee Webb), a munitions worker during the First World War, 1916-1918, IWM (Q 97329).

  • Munition Worker Badge, Royal Arsenal History, <https://www.royal-arsenal-history.com/royal-arsenal-women-workers.html>

  • Photographs of Arthur Roberts & Drawings from Morag Miller et al, As Good as Any Man (History Press, 2014)

  • Photographs (all) of Vera and Eve from Wendy Moore, Jack and Eve (Atlantic, 2024)

  • Portrait of Boy (1st Class) Jack Cornwell VC, 1916, IWM (Q 20883). Also on Wikimedia Commons.

  • Private Roberts, 3rd Battalion, Kings Own Scottish Borderers, from Morag Miller et al, As Good as Any Man (The History Press, 2014)

  • Ruins of the Venesta factory, History of London, <https://www.thehistoryoflondon.co.uk/the-silvertown-explosion/> , also held in IWM.

  • Spanish Flu Nurses,c 1918-1919, Dearman VAD Collection, Australian War Memorial <https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C204717>

  • Sterling Ladies FC c.1918, London Museum.

  • These Women Are Doing Their Bit poster, IWM, Art.IWM PST 8704.

  • The End of the Baby Killer, poster , c.1916, Wikimedia Commons <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_End_of_the_%27Baby-Killer%27.png>

  • VICTORIA CROSS WINNERS 1914 - 1918: K - Z, IWM Q 66470.

  • William Leefe Robinson, Herts at War.

Bibliography* edited for webpage, examiners please refer to the bibliography in Project Review

Primary Sources

  • Laurence Housman, War Letters of Fallen Englishmen (Pine St. Books, 2002)

  • Interview with Caroline Rennles, IWM Sound Archive.

  • Letter concerning the burning of a Zeppelin at Cuffley, Hertfordshire, September 1916, IWM, Documents.5508.

  • Letter from Jack Cornwell VC, early 1916, IWM, Documents.8267.

  • Papers in Morag Miller et al, As Good as Any Man (The History Press, 2014)

  • Papers in Wendy Moore, Jack and Eve (Atlantic, 2024)

  • Private Papers of A W D Roberts, IWM, Documents.24472.

  • Private Papers of Vera (Jack) Holme, LSE, 7VJH.

  • Voices of the First World War: Jutland, IWM <https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-jutland>

  • Voices of the First World War: Munitions, IWM <https://www.iwm.org.uk/VoicesOfTheFirstWorldWar>

  • Voices of the First World War: Passchendaele <https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-passchendaele>

  • Voices of the First World War: War in the Air, IWM <https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-war-in-the-air>

  • Voices of the First World War: Zeppelins over Britain, IWM <https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/voices-of-the-first-world-war-zeppelins-over-britain>

Selected Secondary Reading

  • Joanna Bourke, Dismembering the Male: Men’s bodies, Britain and the Great War (Reaktion, 1996)

  • Stephen Bourne, Black Poppies (History Press, 2014)

  • Satanu Das, India, Empire, and First World War Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

  • Margaret Higonnet and Ellen Lamotte, Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War (Northeastern, 2001)

  • Chirstine Hallet, Containing trauma: Nursing in the First World War (Manchester University Press, 2009)

  • Alison Fell and Christine Hallett (eds), First World War Nursing: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2013)

  • Susan Grayzel, At Home and Under Fire: the Air Raid in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)

  • Bridget E. Keown, ““A perfect hell of a night which we can never forget”: Narratives of Trauma in the Private Writings of British and Irish Nurses in the First World War” in Leese, Crouthamel and Kühne (eds.), Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media (Toronto, 2024)

  • Edward Madigan, “Sticking to a Hateful Task: Resilience, Humour, and British Understandings of Combatant Courage 1914-18”, War in History, 20:1 (2013), 76-98

  • Jessica Meyer, Men of War: Masculinity and the First World War in Britain (Palgrave, 2008)

  • Jessica Meyer (Ed), British Popular Culture and the First World War (Brill, 2008)

  • Deborah Thom, Nice Girls and Rude Girls Women Workers in World War 1 (Bloomsbury, 2000)

  • Alexander Watson, Enduring the Great War (Cambridge: Cambridge Military Histories, 2008)