Miss M S Cochrane, Rrc, Srn, Matron, Charing Cross Hospital Art.IWMART...
Miss M S Cochrane, Rrc, Srn, Matron, Charing Cross Hospital image: Three-quarter length portrait of Cochrane in uniform
"Breaking up rough pasture in Kent. The horses cease work at sunset, b...
"Breaking up rough pasture in Kent. The horses cease work at sunset, but the motor tractor carries on through the night." (Taken from the portfolio notes to, 'Land Work in War-time') image: A field in winter wi... More
'She is only one of a multitude of efficient and conscientious women w...
She is only one of a multitude of efficient and conscientious women workers in engineering industries. Her particular task is to make an important component of the Weir pump, a piece of machinery with which all... More
'The Islington Borough Council have employed women on this strenuous t...
The Islington Borough Council have employed women on this strenuous task. On the left, wielding a pick, is Mrs Kellam, forewoman, a grandmother who is not afraid of hard work and responsibility. Her daughter, E... More
'These Hampstead women are typical of the thousands engaged on the use...
These Hampstead women are typical of the thousands engaged on the useful and laborious work of collecting salvage of every sort to help the war effort. In this instance heavy sacks of waste paper are seen bein... More
'These London boys find a new and healthy way of life in the country, ...
These London boys find a new and healthy way of life in the country, which is in itself an education. Most of them continue to have full-time schooling and, being boys, the country is not dull for them. Many of... More
'This one of the thirty-one camps which have been specially built in t...
This one of the thirty-one camps which have been specially built in the country and are now housing schools from the evacuation areas. At present there are about 6,000 children in the camps. 'Evacuation' has ma... More
A Bermondsey Rest Centre Art.IWMARTLD1376
A Bermondsey Rest Centre image: The interior of a room of a rest centre full of civilians sitting on chairs, some drinking from mugs. In the centre of the composition a nurse dressed in white uniform stands ta... More
A Bombed Hospital Ward Art.IWMARTLD944
A Bombed Hospital Ward image: two nurses strip a bed with blood-stained sheets in a ward with a large hole blown through the wall. An ARP warden stands near the hole surveying the rubble-strewn floor and the pi... More
A Crowd Watching a Military Band in a Town Square Art.IWMART159907
A Crowd Watching a Military Band in a Town Square Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Nursery School - Watlington Park children in Wartime - Five lithogra...
A Nursery School - Watlington Park children in Wartime - Five lithographs by Ethel Gabain image: There are a group of infants in the foreground all dressed in identical checked smocks, ankle socks and shoes. Wi... More
A St John's Ambulance Examination in Progress Art.IWMARTLD83
A St John's Ambulance Examination in Progress image: on the right four men hold a strecher with a patient between them. On the left another patient is being attended to on he floor, watched by the examiners.
Battle of Britain- Blitz, Dawn Art.IWMART156726
Battle of Britain- Blitz, Dawn image: a view from the north bank of the River Thames in London over towards the Shot Tower on the south bank. A few civilians are walking on the pavement in the foreground. Cloud... More
Battle of Britain- the Bells of St Clement's Art.IWMART156722
Battle of Britain- the Bells of St Clement's image: a view inside the bomb damaged church of St Clement's in London, the famous bells lying on the floor surrounded by rubble and debris. Behind them is an archw... More
Battle of Britain- the Burning of the City Art.IWMART156723
Battle of Britain- the Burning of the City image: a view from the south bank of the River Thames towards St Paul's Cathedral and the City of London, which is shrouded in smoke as a result of German air raids. ... More
Battle of Britain- the First Blitz Art.IWMART156721
Battle of Britain- the First Blitz image: a view across the rooftops of central London during the Blitz in 1940. The dome of St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the distance and the sky is completely dominated ... More
Bellows Badges - A menu with a lot of different food items on it
Badges of the Fellowship of the Bellows
Building Mosquitoes, 1943 (Art.IWM ART LD 3359)
Four workers inside the shell of a Mosquito aircraft on a wooden scaffold within a factory
Building Planes, 1940 (Art.IWM ART LD 6390)
A view across an aircraft assembly factory.
Edward Roche - a head melter at a Sheffield munition factory Art.IWMAR...
Edward Roche - a head melter at a Sheffield munition factory image: A head and shoulders portrait of Edward Roche wearing protective glasses pushed up onto his forehead.
First Aid Practice Art.IWMARTLD81
First Aid Practice image: a scene in a hall with large windows. Three soldiers are carrying a patient in a makeshift strecher on the left. In the background another soldier is practicing putting a sling on a pa... More
Fisherman, Gourock, Scotland, 24 October 1941 Art.IWMART1574613
Fisherman, Gourock, Scotland, 24 October 1941 image: A study of a fisherman standing on a quayside with fishing boats in the background.
From the famous series of four posters by Newbould. An example of how ...
From the famous series of four posters by Newbould. An example of how an inter-war travel poster style was used unchanged during the war to arouse patriotic feelings for an idealised pastoral Britain, defined ... More
Italian Prisoners-of-war Working on the Land Art.IWMARTLD1833
Italian Prisoners-of-war Working on the Land image: View across an onion field in autumn with sixteen Italian prisoners-of-war gathering in the crop, supervised by a single British soldier at the near edge of t... More
Mary Adshead was married to the painter Stephen Bone. During the War t...
Mary Adshead was married to the painter Stephen Bone. During the War they spent summer holidays with their children at Barmouth, a seaside resort on Cardigan Bay, North Wales. The sight of a group of soldiers... More
Mary Adshead was married to the painter Stephen Bone. During the War t...
Mary Adshead was married to the painter Stephen Bone. During the War they spent summer holidays with their children at Barmouth, a seaside resort on Cardigan Bay, North Wales. The sight of a group of soldiers... More
Snack Time in a Factory (Art.IWM ART LD 1486)
A portrait of three workers gathering in a factory for a tea break. One stands facing the artist with a welding mask on his head, drinking from a mug. He has a newspaper under his arm. A second worker stands wi... More
Standing-by on Train 21- One of the Civilian Evacuation trains ready t...
Standing-by on Train 21- One of the Civilian Evacuation trains ready to evacuate casualties at short notice image: View of the interior of a train carriage with medical staff passing the time by knitting and reading
Study for 'shipbuilding on the Clyde' - Art.IWMARTLD600817
Study for 'shipbuilding on the Clyde' - Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Study for 'shipbuilding on the Clyde' - Heavy Duty Transporter on Rail...
Study for 'shipbuilding on the Clyde' - Heavy Duty Transporter on Rails image: Detailed drawing of a heavy duty transporter, used to carry heavy or large metal parts around the shipyard. It has a screw mechan... More
Study for 'shipbuilding on the Clyde' - Using the Bevi Art.IWMARTLD600...
Study for 'shipbuilding on the Clyde' - Using the Bevi image: A group of five men using a 'bevi' (or bevelling iron) on a steel frame in the plater's shed. Two other men are hammering in the iron 'dogs' used t... More
The Messerschmidt in Windsor Great Park by Paul Nash, 1940, Tate N0571...
The Messerschmidt in Windsor Great Park 1940 Paul Nash 1889-1946 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05716
These London boys find a new and healthy way of life in the country, w...
These London boys find a new and healthy way of life in the country, which is in itself an education. Most of them continue to have full-time schooling and, being boys, the country is not dull for them. Many of... More
This is a jarring image of the suburbs, with street lighting replaced ...
This is a jarring image of the suburbs, with street lighting replaced by fires and normal life threatened and disturbed. The sense of urgency is heightened by Carr's rapid brush strokes and scratching of the p... More
Tunna - Public domain portrait drawing
Illustration of Norman Tunna extinguishing a fire on a munitions train during an air raid on Liverpool in September 1940. The drawing was commissioned by the UK Ministry of Information for a book on winners of... More
Unidentified IWM image - A black and white drawing of a group of peopl...
A factory scene from the Second World War, one possibly supplying chemicals. A truckload of aircraft propellers in the yard This was originally uploaded over another file on 5 October 2017 See File:Winston Chu... More
Women lumberjacks at Pityoulish lumber camp IWM Art.IWM ART LD 1539
Women lumberjacks at Pityoulish lumber camp. They are sorting out timber and flinging each tree-trunk on to the right heap. This is, indeed, heavy work even for men, and it may will be a matter of pride to us a... More
Women work on a Churchill tank, Women's Work Art.IWMARTLD1536
Five women work on a Churchill tank in a workshop. A beam of light shinning from the upper left illuminates the scene.[1]
Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring (1943) (Art. IWM LD 2850) (backgrou...
Detail from "Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring" Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring (1943) (Art. IWM LD 2850) (Cropped)
Detail from "Ruby Loftus screwing a Breech-ring" Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
A Land Girl and the Bail Bull by Evelyn Dunbar, 1945, (Tate N05688)
A Land Girl and the Bail Bull 1945 Evelyn Dunbar 1906-1960 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05688
All Saints Chapel, Bath by John Piper (1942) (Tate N05719)
All Saints Chapel, Bath 1942 John Piper 1903-1992 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05719
Bomb Falling into Water by Leonard Rosoman (1942) (Tate N05729)
Bomb Falling into Water 1942 Leonard Rosoman 1913-2012 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05729
Building the Mulberry Harbour, London Docks, 1944. by Frances Macdonal...
Building the Mulberry Harbour, London Docks 1944 Frances Macdonald 1914-2002 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05705
Coggeshall Church, Essex. by John Armstrong, 1940. Tate
Coggeshall Church, Essex 1940 John Armstrong 1893-1973 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05675
Devastation, 1940 AHouse on the Welsh Border by Graham Sutherland (Tat...
Devastation, 1940: A House on the Welsh Border 1940 Graham Sutherland OM 1903-1980 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05734
Devastation, 1941, An East End Street by Graham Sutherland (Tate N0573...
Devastation, 1941: An East End Street 1941 Graham Sutherland OM 1903-1980 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05736
Devastation, 1941, East End, Burnt Paper Warehouse by Graham Sutherlan...
Devastation, 1941: East End, Burnt Paper Warehouse 1941 Graham Sutherland OM 1903-1980 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05737
Devastation, 1941, East End, Wrecked Public House by Graham Sutherland...
Devastation, 1941: East End, Wrecked Public House 1941 Graham Sutherland OM 1903-1980 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05735
Night Raid on Portsmouth Docks by Richard Eurich, 1941 (Tate N05690)
Night Raid on Portsmouth Docks 1941 Richard Eurich 1903-1992 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05690
Shelling by Night by Eric Ravilious, 1940, (Tate N05724)
Shelling by Night 1941 Eric Ravilious 1903-1942 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05724
Somerset Place, Bath by John Piper (1942) (Tate N05720)
Somerset Place, Bath 1942 John Piper 1903-1992 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05720
Southampton Dock by Alan Sorrell, 1944, (Tate N05731)
Southampton Dock 1944 Alan Sorrell 1904-1974 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05731
St Mary le Port, Bristol by John Piper (1940) (Tate N05718)
St Mary le Port, Bristol 1940 John Piper 1903-1992 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05718
INF3-13 Earl of Selborne Artist William Little 1939-1946
Earl of Selborne Depicted person: Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne
A Brother and Sister Sheltering in the Underground, 1941 (Art.IWM ART ...
A boy and girl sitting on a bench sheltering in the London Underground during the Blitz of World War Two.
A Camouflage Scheme in Progress (1943) (Art.IWM ART LD 3028)
Five men on the roof of an industrial building painting it in a camouflage pattern.
A Canning Demonstration (Art.IWM ART LD 765)
Interior of a village hall with two women demonstrating the preservation of fruit and vegatables, in front of an audience of women.
A House Collapsing on Two Firemen, Shoe Lane, London, EC4 (Art.IWM ART...
A collapsing wall disects the scene as it is about to bury two firemen. Debris, fire and smoke fill the view.
A Knitting Party (Art.IWM LD 768)
A large room with a party of women sitting in chairs and knitting.
A Lorry Depot, Long distance and local lorries loading and unloading a...
Interior of a lorry depot with four trucks being loaded or unloaded.
A Miner at Work (1942) (Art.IWM ART LD 5947)
Interior of a coal-mine with a half-naked miner working with a pickaxe, his back to the viewer and resting against a wooden prop.The scene is lit by a single Davy lamp
A Ministry of War Transport Crane unloading Armoured Cars and Lorries ...
A crane unloading armoured cars and lorries from ships in Cardiff bay.
A Nose section after Repair, Girls fitting supports to take the bomb-a...
A women worker within the nose of a Lancaster bomber attending to the frame of the window with another woman worker standing outside and also working on the nose. The nose section of another Lancaster is backg... More
A Parachute Factory (Art.IWM ART LD 2908)
A view of the factoryfloor of a parachute factory, showing a row of women working at sewing machines with bales of silk in the background & other activities depicted
A Penicillin Factory, Girls filling bottles (1945) (Art.IWM ART LD 502...
Interior of a factory with women at wok filling bottles, which are on a conveyor belt.Two men are visable in the background.
A Telephone Exchange (1941) (Art. IWM ART LD 1204)
A view inside a bombed telephone exchange, full of wires, debris and rubble.
A Tilbury Shelter Scene by Henry Moore, 1941, (Tate N05708)
A Tilbury Shelter Scene 1941 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05708
Aircraft Production Girls working on wings (Art.IWM ART LD 1733)
Workshop with women working on a glider wing Public domain photograph related to the British military forces, World War Two, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alfred Thomson 1941 GM portrait Brandon Moss GM
Section Leader Brandon Moss, GC, of Coventry Public domain photograph of 20th-century male portrait painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
An Emergency Bridge over the Thames at Hungerford (1945) (Art.IWM ART ...
A view from the south bank of the Thames in London showing a temporary bridge over the river.
An Emergency Telephone Office in the City January 1941 (Art.IWM ART LD...
Left, exterior scene showing two figures looking at an urban bomb site. Right, interior of a public telephone exchange with severial booths and figures
An Orderly returning Washing to the Linen Store, Millbank Hospital (Ar...
A hospital orderly standing at the half open door of a linen cupboard marked with an air raid shelter sign.
An Escalator in an Underground Factory (1944) (Art.IWM ART LD 4142)
Crowds of women factory workers in white overalls descend an escalator in the London Underground
At the Coal Face. A Miner Pushing a Tub (1942) (Art.IWM ART LD 2240)
Scene is the interior of a mine shaft with miners working a coal face in the background. In the foreground a miner pushes a coal tub on a track through wooden props with a Davy lamp hanging from his waist.
Blade Heat-treatment Cage (Art.IWM ART LD 3105)
Two men stand either side of a long cage containing a aircraft propeller suspended from above
Blood Transfusion, Filtering serum (Art.IWM ART LD 3589)
Two women are seen from behind seated at a laboratory bench with large glass bottles and tubing between them.One has a filtration tower in front of her and a bunson burner beside her.
Blood-Transfusion, Pouring citrate solution into blood bottles. (Art.I...
A women is seen working at a laboratory bench with test-tubes attached to a retort stand; a tube leading into a large glass vessell from the test-tubes.Other glass jars are in the foreground and a second women... More
Breech-blocks in the Shop at the Gun-testing Range (Art.IWM ART LD763)
Twp breech blocks of artillery guns inside a building, one connected to an artillery barrel
Camouflaged Cooling Towers (Art.IWM ART LD 3024)
A view of a power station and cooling tower in wartime camouflage design paintwork.
Canadian Fireman, Overseas Contingent (1944) (Art.IWM ART LD 4721)
A half-length portrait of a Canadian Fireman wearing helmet and uniform with a camouflaged rain jacket.In his hands he is holding a packet of cigerettes.
Canterbury Cathedral, 1942 (Art.IWM ART LD 5945)
A view of Canterbury Cathedral across a bomb site covered in weeds and rubble. A ruined house with a collapsed roof is also visable.
Charity Bick (1941) (Art.IWM ART LD 1207)
A three-quarter length portrait of Charity Bick in ARP uniform, wearing a helmet, yellow 'dispatch rider' arm band and her George Medal
Christian Vlasto, a Canal-boat Women (1944) (Art.IWM ART LD 4950)
Three-quarter portrait of Christian Vlasto, seated with hands on hips, with a sketch of a canal-boat in background.
Convalescent Nurses Making Camouflage Nets (Art.IWM ART LD 1664)
View of a large room with nurses working on camouflage nets spread over the floor and on a table.
Coventry Cathedral, 15 November 1940 - John Piper - 1940
Coventry Cathedral, from sketches made on 15 November 1940, the day after its destruction in an air raid.
Coventry Cathedral, November 1940
Inside the ruined nave of Coventry Cathedral, looking northwest. The foreground is littered with bricks, girders and rubble. On the left is the west tower. Centre right in the distance are the tower and spire ... More
Divisional Officer Twyman (1942) (Art.IWM ART LD 1898)
A seated three-quarters length portrait of a naval officer in a blue uniform wearing a cap.
Donald Coleman Bailey, designer of the Bailey Bridge (1944) (Art.IWM A...
A three-quarter length portrait of Donald Coleman Bailey, sitting cross-legged smoking a pipe with a decorative background showing a map of Great Britain merging into an image of tanks crossing a Bailey Bridge.
Dr R E Stradling, CB, MD, FRS (Art.IWM ART LD 3559)
Full length seated portrait of Dr Stradling beside a desk with a bookcase behind.
Effigies of Crusaders in Round Table Church, London, after damage enem...
Stone effigies of Knights set in the floor of the Round Temple Church, London, surrounded by dust and rubble, with a piece of green fabric covering one figure.
Evacuees Growing Cabbages (Art.IWM ART.LD 428) (1940)
A group of 5 children evacuees tending a garden cabbage patch with a pram beside them
Fireman Resting (Art.IWM ART LD 668)
A fireman lies in his shirtsleeves reading a paper on a makeshift bed, surrounded by piles of paper,blankets and clothes.
Forces Canteen Kitchen (Art IWM ART LD 2992)
Six women wearing aprons work in a narrow kitchen hung with laundry. One id filling a water jug from a large urn, others are using large mixing bowls.
G V Blackstone, GM, London Fire Force (1941) (Art.IWM ART LD 1356)
Three-quarter length portrait of fire-fighter in uniform, against a background of a damaged cityscape.
Gas Mask (Art.IWM ART LD 1290)
Head and shoulders of an air-raid warden in helmet and gas mask, a gas-attack wooden rattle held in his gloved right hand.
Glass-blowers 'Gathering' from the Furnace. (1943) (Art.IWM ART LD 285...
Three men in white suits, with face masks, each holding a long pole thru a hatch into a glassblowing furnace.
Green Flax (Art.IWM ART LD 3586)
Two women wearing headscarves sorting and feeding flax into a machine
Grey Tube Shelter by Henry Moore, 1940, (Tate N05706)
Grey Tube Shelter 1940 Henry Moore OM, CH 1898-1986 Presented by the War Artists Advisory Committee 1946 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N05706
Holborn Viaduct and the City Temple, London (Art.IWM ART LD 1691) (194...
Aview of a large cleared bomb site showing the foundations of destroyed buildings and with the Holborn Viaduct to the rear.