Imperial War Museum

Women chemists made up a significant proportion of the scientific workforce. Fortunately, the Women s Work Collection of the Imperial War Museum (IWM) has a significant amount of documentary evidence on the wartime women scientists. This useful material was compiled in 1919 by Agnes Ethel Conway of the Women s Work Subcommittee of the IWM. Conway circulated a questionnaire to universities and industries informing them that the Committee was compiling a historical record of war work performed by women for the National Archives. In particular, Conway added they [the Subcommittee] are anxious that women s share in scientific research and in routine work should not be overlooked. .. 13 Enough replies were received to provide a sense of the breadth of employment of scientifically trained women during the war. 

Conway, A. E. Women s War Work Collection. Imperial War Museum, London (WWWC-IWM). 

Fig. 1.4 The Livens projector, with associated "accessories (reproduced with permission from the Imperial War Museum).

Sargent s unforgettable and haunting oil painting, "Gassed , which hangs in the Imperial War Museum in London. 

We are grateful to the Imperial War Museum for permission to publish Figs. 1.20-1.21, the Barbican for permission to publish Figs. 1.22 and 1.25, and the British Museum for permission to publish Figs. 1.26-1.29. We could not trace the owners of the copyright to Figures 1.23 and 1.24. 

We also cannot acknowledge too warmly the willing aid offered by the staff of the British Museum and the Imperial War Museum, who helped with the arduous task of tracking down photographs, paintings, diaries and other pertinent records relating to World War I. 

Two of the larjje, shortlived armed merchant cruisers, the Aqiiituniii and... Imperial War Museum)... 

The Dardanelles campaign saw the big liners called up for troop carrying. The Olympic, at Mudros, now darkened overall, is interestingly displaying two numbers — 2(i7 on her side and 2810 just below the bridge. (Imperial War Museum)... 

The scheme that was endorsed hy the Admiralty s Committee on. Awards to Inventors — Norman Wilkinson s dazzle painting system shown here on the Aqtii(anit>, seen from the stern at Brest on 22 February 1919. Imperial War Museum)... 

Marine artist. Studied art at the Westminster Art School and in Paris. Attached to the Dazzle I ainting Section from March 1917 as Lieutenant RNVR. Norman Wilkinson s assistant at the Royal Academy. A regular contributor to the Illustrated London News and author of the book. The History of British Flags. His work is exhibited at the Imperial War Museum. 

Marine artist, accredited as the inventor of the system of protective naval colouring in World War I, widely known as dazzle painting. Head of the Dazzle Painting Section at the Royal Academy, commissioned as Lieutenant Commander RNVR. Adviser on airfield camouflage to the Air Ministry during World War II. His war paintings from both wars were dedicated to the nation many are exhibited at the Imperial War Museum and the National Maritime Museum. 

The museum trustees received requests for the safe-keeping of items of outstanding importance from numerous institutions and private individuals, and the quarry soon became a fabulous national treasure-house. Apan from artefacts from Bloomsbury and Kensington, Westwood also held collections from the Bodleian Library, the Imperial War Museum, and the Free French Museum of National Antiquities. Among the individual items to spend the war years in Wiltshire were the Rubens Ceiling from the Whitehall banqueting hall, the Crown Jewels, the Charles I statue from Whitehall and the bronze screen from the Henry VII Chapel in Westminster Abbey. 

The following have very kindly given permission for the use of illustrations The Public Records Office (1), Imperial War Museum (2, 3 4, 5 6), General Allan Younger (7), Royal Society (8), Porton Down (9,10), Keystone Press Agency (11,12,13), Porton Down (14), Yivo Institute for Jewish Research (15, 16), Ministry of Defence (17,18), Wellcome Museum of Medical Science (19), Center for Disease Control, Atlanta (20,21,22), U S Department of Defense (23), Porton Down (24), Associated Press (25), Ministry of Defence (26), United Press International (27), U S Department of Defence (28), United Press International (29), Press Association (30). 

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