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GWR in the First World War
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors: Sandra Gittins
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-16 - Publisher: The History Press

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In August 1914 the GWR was plunged into war, the like of which this country had never experienced before. Over the years that followed life changed beyond measu
When the Office Went to War
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Clare Horrie
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-10 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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During the course of the First World War, staff of the Great Western Railway's Audit Office sent letters and photographs back to their employer in Paddington, w
The Fair Sex: Women and the Great Western Railway
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Rosa Matheson
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-24 - Publisher: The History Press

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The Great Western Railway struggled with what was called 'the women question' for many years. It had heartily agreed with The Railway Sheet and Official Gazette
A History of the Great Western Railway
Language: en
Pages: 443
Authors: Colin Maggs
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-15 - Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

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A narrative history of the most iconic railway company of the great age of steam.
The British Home Front and the First World War
Language: en
Pages: 707
Authors: Hew Strachan
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-03-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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The fullest account yet of the British home front in the First World War and how war changed Britain forever.