“Female workers of Palmers Shipbuilding Company Limited who typify the many women employed for cleaning and scrubbing on board the ships at Hebburn-on-Tyne. They have all done this work for over three years […] Read More …
War widows’ pensions have always been intensely debated in British politics. A state-funded war widows’ pensions scheme was not introduced in Britain until the First World War, so the debate reproduced below predates any […] Read More …
In this letter to the Times newspaper, a correspondent criticises the discontinuation of widows’ pensions for boatswains, gunners, and carpenters. “Nauticus”, as he calls himself, goes as far as to suggest that the current regulations regarding […] Read More …
Because there was no coherent support system for war widows during the Victorian period, many well-meaning individuals set out to establish charitable organisations to help. In this letter, a correspondent calls for support for his longstanding plan to establish a Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Widows’ Fund. […] Read More …
This postcard was published by the Women’s Suffrage Atelier (London) in 1909. The fight for women’s right to vote was in full swing, and the postcard illustrated just how badly English laws protected women, and particularly widows with children. […] Read More …
The Crimean War (1853-56) was subject to much public criticism because of the way in which some of its battles were conducted and the amount of British soldiers that lost their lives lost during the conflict, especially in disastrous events such as […] Read More …
Rev. Richard Cobbold published Mary Anne Wellington: The Soldier’s Daughter, Wife and Widow (1846) in the hope of raising funds for his subject: a widow who had accompanied her husband on all his postings, and who, after his death, had fallen on […] Read More …
