# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYWqD-6o-5W
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65425424-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/0561cd6a25.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-05-15T09:20:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

The yellow on her skin was not makeup.

It was TNT.

During the First World War, thousands of British women worked inside munitions factories, filling shells for the front.

The yellow dust got on their hands.
Under their nails.
In their hair.
Into the air they breathed.

They were nicknamed the Canary Girls.

But the colour was not harmless.

It was a warning.

TNT poisoning could damage their bodies from the inside, and some women never recovered.

Britain needed shells.
The shells needed TNT.
And TNT turned women yellow.

Follow for Britain’s darkest forgotten stories.

#BritishHistory #DarkHistory #HiddenHistory #WWIHistory #HistoryReels

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## Tags

wwihistory, britishhistory, historyreels, hiddenhistory, darkhistory

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