In the early years of the war a gas mask was an ever-present accoutrement - an unfashionable, square, cardboard box - or it was until Woolworths came up with a variety of alternative metal canisters.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Garrett Morgan's inventions and social justice achievements were celebrated this week in Cleveland during the 100th anniversary of the Waterworks Tunnel disaster. The 1916 disaster ...

Now put your books down…and get your gas masks out. Quietly. Now take them carefully out of their boxes - no, no, Isobel, don't drag at it…you show her how to do ...

Lasting for 267 days, the Blitz rendered 1.4 million people homeless and killed 9,000 civilians in London. Buildings were torn to shreds, walls crumbed, families were displaced. Because of the fear ...