MPX5123919: Women sewing machinists at the Ford Motor Company plant in Dagenham took strike action on 7 June, 1968 in support of a claim for regrading, parity with their male colleagues in the C pay grade and recognition of their skills. After 3 weeks on strike they settled for 92% of the C grade rate. Although not an equal pay strike, the strike was given a high profile when the whole plant was closed and Barbara Castle, the Employment Minister, was brought in to help negotiate a settlement.. The women strikers carrying their shopping bags and handbags on their way to the Inquiry June 1968 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4688264: Shopfront with an overhanging balcony, Pompeii. Woman pouring water into a basin in an open restaurant. Walls decorated with mural of a serpent. Chromolithograph by D. Capri after an illustration by G. Discanno from Antonio Niccoliniõs Pompeii: Views and Restorations (Pompeii: Essaies et Restorations), published by Zucchi & De Luca, Naples, 1898. Antonio was grandson of the architect Antonio Niccolini Sr. / Bridgeman Images
LSE4326394: Silk shops in Mitsoui, Yedo (or Edo, present-day Tokyo), lively, and in the background, the silhouette of Mount Fuji. Engraving to illustrate the voyage to Japan, in 1863-1864, by Aime Humbert, minister of the Swiss Confederation, in “Le tour du monde, nouveau journal des voyages”” published under the direction of Edouard Charton, Hachette, Paris, 1867. Selva Collection., Unknown Artist, (19th century) / Bridgeman Images