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BBC Breakfast WLA Coverage, 24.2.20
Watch Land Girl veteran Zeita Holes and historian Cherish Watton discuss the work of the Women’s Land Army for the BBC’s coverage in the lead up to VE Day.
“How efficiently they do their work”: responses to the MOI Land Girl Film (April 1942)
Last year, the Ministry of Information (MOI) Digital released some new documents. These were reports created by the MOI to monitor morale during the war. Naturally, with the release of new source material, I...
They shall grow not old
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morningWe will remember them. From...
![Zeita Trott, aged 17, in her new land girl uniform in the summer of 1942 when she joined the Women's Land Army [WLA] in Bedfordshire. She was based at Bolnhurst hostel in the north of the county and travelled out in mobile gangs each day to work on local farms. She left on medical grounds in 1945 after injury at work. She later married and became Mrs Holes.](https://www.womenslandarmy.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/zeita_trott.jpg)
Land Girl Zeita Holes featured on BBC Countryfile, 19th July 2019
Click the image above to watch the episode and scroll to 47:58 to watch Zeita’s interview. John Craven visits the secluded estate of Luton Hoo, where the walled garden and the estate’s farmland have...
The Women’s Land Army: Formed 80 Years Ago Today
It was 1st June 1939. On the brink of war, the British government re-formed the Women’s Land Army. During the First World War, it took 4 years before the government recognised they desperately needed...
Christmas Appeal: Donations for Overhead Scanner
This Christmas, I’m asking website supporters whether you’d consider contributing towards the purchase of a Fujitsu Scansnap SV600 overhead scanner. This scanner would allow me to scan in documents at a faster rate and...
Emmerdale 1918 WW1 WLA Episode
Head over to the ITV Hub to watch the fourth episode of Emmerdale 1918. Natalie J Robb, who plays farmer Moira Dingle, traces the story of remarkable Yorkshire city girl who led the way in...
A Dot on the Landscape by Ray Evans
Set in the Midlands during WW2 a young Birmingham girl is enlisted into the Women’s Land Army by her mother, who fears for her safety knowing that the city will be targeted by German...