Lots of women’s football games in the early 1900s ... partly thanks to those munitions factory workers during WW1, young girls can grow up to play football on the global stage.

videoWomen in medicine and health in World War One Kate Adie explains how women staffed the medical services and broke down social attitudes during WW1. The rise of the girls' night and the first ...

Along with partner Louisa Garrett-Anderson she overcame enormous obstacles in order to be allowed to treat soldiers during ... eve of WW1 they were still restricted to treating only women and ...

But after their shifts ended, a group of women from Coalville ... said that when some national competitions were suspended during the war, the Bass Charity Vase was continued both to boost ...

When men went to fight in World War One, women at a munitions factory in Newport formed rugby teams, inspiring a movement that "pushed boundaries". They contributed to a fundraising effort for a ...