A group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing mb-code 2378468 Scene from Samuel Wallis's voyage

Scene from Samuel Wallis's voyage of circumnavigation in HMS 'Dolphin'

Bow Churchyard

the army that had accompanied Napoleon III to Italy made a triumphal entry into Paris

At the height of its munitions output during World War I the Arsenal covered about 1300 acres and employed some 80

A group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing mb-code 2378468 Scene from Samuel Wallis's voyageA group of women receive a lesson in boot repairing, World War I, c1914 c1918. A cobbler showing women how to repair boots at Scaynes Hill Women's Insititute, Sussex. Cobbling was traditionally regarded as an occupation only for men, but was efficiently taken over by women during the war.