"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]