Woolwich Arsenal

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Occupation Enid Bagnold
EB was one of first women to work at a munitions factory, at WoolwichArsenal in south-east London.
Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986.
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Occupation Noel Streatfeild
After school and the domestic science course, NS worked at Woolwich Arsenal during the first world war, making munitions and living among urban working-class people who were then quite strange to her.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Huse, Nancy. Noel Streatfeild. Twayne, 1994.
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Travel Mary Brunton
Their sight-seeing took in a brewery, the casting of cannon-balls at Woolwich Arsenal , and the army Victualling Office at Deptford.

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9 November 1918: Faced with unemployment, 6,000 female munitions...

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9 November 1918

Faced with unemployment, 6,000 female munitions workers, mainly from Woolwich Arsenal , marched to the House of Commons under the banner Shall Peace Bring Us Starvation.
The banner had no question-mark.
Beddoe, Deirdre. Back to Home and Duty: Women Between the Wars, 1918-1939. Pandora, 1989.
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