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Using our new title the Bromley Local Guide and Advertiser, this week we've taken some career advice from the 1910s. The paper recommends that young women, just leaving school, are ideally suited to typist positions across the country: https://t.co/zreXN59yJI #OccupationHistory
Telephone switchboard operators working for the Post Office at the Faraday Building wear gas masks as part of an 'anti-air-raid precaution' demonstration, Illustrated London News, 13 August 1938 https://t.co/6sm8CW4D76 #OccupationHistory
The Daily Mirror, 22 March 1912, pictures an 'up-to-date' rat catcher, Mr. E. Bunting from Bromley. Mr. Bunting owned a motor-car, which allowed him to travel from place to place in order to undertake his work https://t.co/vY8RjDC1NG #OccupationHistory
In 1901 1.5 million people across the UK were employed in domestic service. In this blog we explore the daily lives of Britain's servants, discovering more about their hardships, their duties and their relationships with their employers: https://t.co/OVXfUHEDTh #OccupationHistory
Did you know that menswear shop Moss Bros was founded in Covent Garden in 1851? Here, over 100 years later, at their Dalston workshop tailors work on clothes for the store, from The Sphere, 30 November 1963 https://t.co/4QUtiFeK90 #OccupationHistory
An 'all-girl searchlight crew' from the ATS are shown ready to 'combat German raiders.' They have been put on a 'two-minute stand-to' and must be ready to man the searchlight batteries within two minutes, The Sphere, 30 January 1943 https://t.co/e0834vB7dl #OccupationHistory
In the early 20th century there was debate as to whether married women should work in factories. Our new title, the Yorkshire Factory Times, illustrates both sides of the argument and how often women had to work out of economic necessity https://t.co/yjYkMOA7h2 #OccupationHistory
In this special blog we explore seven lost or unusual occupations from the past, and meet the people who worked as rag and bone men, lamplighters, crossing sweepers and more, all using newspapers from The Archive. You can read it here: https://t.co/gV8GDZXYsd #OccupationHistory
This is Mrs Catherine Jowett from Bradford, who at nearly 85 had been working as a knocker-up (waking people up in the days before alarms) for nearly 40 years, Leeds Mercury, 16 October 1925 https://t.co/n6ZdDGtDXb #OccupationHistory
The Sphere, 1 October 1927, pictures Miss J. Trefusis Forbes training students at the Training School for Kennel Maids in London, which she had set up. Here, she instructs her pupils on how to care for a dog's mouth https://t.co/0M7h4bZgWV #OccupationHistory #EducationHistory
By 1915 'Women police had become an established fact' in Britain, with the founding of the Women Police Volunteers the previous year. Discover more about the history of women in the police in our special blog: https://t.co/8lrgIZXj2n #OccupationHistory #WomenInHistory
The Sphere, 28 April 1934, pictures some of London's 'one million scholars.' This class at Bloomsbury Trade School is learning how to 'touch up' photographs, the photoshop of its day! https://t.co/tYTET9D2tm #OccupationHistory #EducationHistory
The Sphere, 12 July 1941, features these despatch riders from the Mechanised Transport Corps (MTC). In their distinctive uniforms, they would keep communications open when telephone lines were down https://t.co/Fd4N6dQn2A #UniformHistory #OccupationHistory #SaturdayStyle
This model is interview ready in an Aquascutum coat, which is made from West of England wool with a fine black stripe, and is photographed by John Cole for The Tatler, 15 September 1954 https://t.co/IirA192s5G #OccupationHistory #FridayFashion
The Sphere, 1 October 1927, features two pioneering 1920s women who had set up an arts and crafts shop in Reading, having done 'all the painting and decorating themselves' https://t.co/0M7h4bZgWV #OccupationHistory
#OTD 50 years ago Rose Heilbron became the first woman judge to sit at the Old Bailey, as reports the Daily Mirror, 4 January 1972. Read more about Rose's remarkable legal career in this special blog: https://t.co/v9PH4FC4aW #OccupationHistory #WomenInHistory
The Sphere, 14 April 1923, reports on how blinded former soldiers could now be employed as office typists, typing their letters from a Dictaphone https://t.co/fskkuoMWwL #OccupationHistory
The Tatler, 27 April 1904, pictures an early 20th century London flower seller, who describes how 'the making up of flower bunches isn't learnt in a day,' and how 'violets are always easy to sell' #OccupationHistory
This month at The Archive we'll be looking at all things #OccupationHistory, and we start with this 'practical' work tweed suit by Mornessa, which was available from Debenham & Freebody for 9 1/2 guineas, The Tatler, 17 November 1954 https://t.co/S7Re3cjB5r #SaturdayStyle
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