The Canary Girls

A GOOD NIGHT SNACK
PATREON EXCLUSIVE SERIES
SEASON 3 : EPISODE 7
NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A Good Night Snack is a series available exclusively for our Housekeeper and Butler tier members on Patreon.

Earlier this month, I covered the Radium Girls on the regular feed, then the Matchstick Girls as bonus content here on Patreon. In keeping with that theme, tonight’s Good Night Snack is about another brave set of women that sacrificed their well-being and often their lives in the interest of progress. This is the story of the Canary Girls.

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Nitric acid retorts and receivers in operation

Nrscotland.gov.uk

Munition workers in a shell warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory

Amusingplanet.com

Finishing room

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Woman filling shells

Amusingplanet.com

Mixing cordite paste with bare hands

Amusingplanet.com

Female munition workers weighing 4.5 shells

Amusingplanet.com

Female workers painting aerial bombs

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A female munitions worker drilling the bodies of Mills hand grenades

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Female munitions workers guide 6 inch howitzer shells being lowered to the floor

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Female workers assembled in the Recreation Room

Amusingplanet.com

The mess room in an armanents factory

Whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com

Poster promoting munitions factory work

Bbc.com

• Episode Sources

  ARTICLES

  Canary Girls

  The Munitionettes and the work of women in the First World War

  Canary Girls Memorial Project

  The Canary Girls: The workers the war turned yellow

  Filling factories in the United Kingdom

  Canary Girls

  Munitionettes: Who were they and what did they do?

  The Munitionettes of World War I - SheHeroes In STEM Series!

  List of munition workers who died of TNT poisoning

  Minister of Munitions

  Munitions of War Act 1915

  Shell Crisis of 1915

  Munitionette

  A Day In The Life Of A Munitions Worker