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1914 - The First World War begins
The steel industry of Sheffield prospered during the First
World War. This was the first mechanised war and it created
an unstoppable demand for weapons, ammunition and men's lives.
Sheffield provided all of these commodities.
Firth's Munitions Factory
During the First World War, Sheffield manufactured 7 million
steel helmets for the troops.
See Harold
and Roland Norris.
 Society must change when major world events happen, and this
time it was women that benefited. Women had to replace the
men who had left for the war by working in the factories.
This gave them an independence they had never had before.Prior
to the war suffragettes had been campaigning to give women
the right to vote, with no results. But in 1918 their war
work was recognised when government passed a bill allowing
women over the age of 30 to vote.Eventually, in 1927, women
were given the same voting rights as men. |
