This episode recognises the women who worked in Footscray’s munitions factory during World War One, and earlier. This talk was originally given as an online presentation for International Women’s Day 2022.  Pioneer girls and flappers is episode 6 of the podcast series Look history in the eye. Talk by Katie Wood, PhD Candidate in history at La Trobe University and Senior Archivist at the University of Melbourne Archives. 

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