80-year archive of the British Army’s in-house magazine, Soldier, has been digitised and is now available online for free. It covers the period 1945 onwards and includes news stories, letters from army personnel, and original adverts. This edition from 1949 has examples of adverts, accounts of postings in Singapore. NOTE: outdated and unacceptable language and social norms are evident, but reflect attitudes at the time.
There are also useful materials on women, if you search this page from the 1960s: it has rates of pay.
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