Europe at Work: Teaching about working women | Europeana Pro

Europe at Work brings stories of our personal working lives together with archive material on industrial and labour-related heritage.

An overcrowded artificial flower maker's workshop, Oxfor Street. The room, less than ten feet square, contained twenty young women at work.

Looking at our working lives, we can show students and learners that the working world we inhabit today is rich and varied, and tells the story of technological and societal changes over time.

In this series, we look at how EUROCLIO is using industrial heritage material to create learning resources for educators on their Historiana portal. This article explores their Women Working source collection, which encourages students to consider how the availability of source material from a certain period influences and shapes our perspective of that time...

Explore industrial heritage on Europeana Collections and find more teaching resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website. You can also read more about women’s working history in Europe on the Europeana Collections Blog. 
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