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Sheppey Munitionesses: Women in Sheerness Dockyard in WWI

With Janys Thornton. The next in a series of online talks hosted by the KAS.

Janys Thornton talks about the work undertaken by Sheppey women working in Sheerness Dockyard during the Great War, its effect on the town and the impact on them when the men returned from the front. She also looks at the leisure activities of the "Munitionesses" and the other women on the Island.

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