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Industry
With the country focused on the
war effort, industry was angled as Media
such, with many sent to work in
munitions factories. Many workers The government worked with
Newspaper salesmen
were women taking the places advertising their daily papers newspapers and magazines during
of their male counterparts, with Women were recruited to work this period, using censorship and
212,000 working in these factories. in the munitions factories propaganda to raise spirits and counter
German efforts at the same. The
Defence of the Realm Act restricted
what newspapers could publish – the
most popular of which were the Times,
Daily Telegraph and Morning Post.

Government

Prime Minister Herbert Henry
Asquith had been in
power since 1908. By
1915, pressure was
growing on him,
Technology with many believing
he was not suited to
With most of the country’s resources being dedicated be a wartime leader
toward the war effort, it is perhaps inevitable that Military and fellow Liberal
some of the main technological advances during this David Lloyd George
time were weapons based. One such advance was Around 6 million men fought replaced him in 1916.
the first British tank, known as Little Willie, which overseas during WWI, with the
weighed 16.5 tons and housed a crew of six. British Navy also playing a part in
subduing their German counterparts.
Although many enthusiastically
enlisted for the armed forces, by
1916 conscription was introduced for
those aged between 18 to 41.

© Alamy; Corbis; Mary Evans

Men had to pass a physical exam
The first tanks bore only a superficial before joining the armed forces
resemblance to today’s behemoths
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