Dec 072014
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Aug 242014
Click here to read an article on the ‘Your Local Guardian’ website about Dorothy Sworder’s time in the WW1 Women’s Land Army. The article contains a great photo and explanation of Dorothy’s WW1 Armband with an array of badges.
Jul 202014
Julie Newman recently got in touch with the following question:- I’m researching the Women’s Land Army in WW1 for a short story to be published later this year in an anthology. I would like to know how many, if any, women were recruited for work on farms in Cornwall and if so, when and where? […]
Jun 182014
Created by Kate Pullinger and Neil Bartlett, and commissioned by 14-18 NOW, LETTER TO AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER is a new kind of war memorial, one made only of words: “This is everyone’s chance to be part of a new national conversation about remembering the war, and to have their voice heard…” During the First World War over two […]
Jun 132014
Article originally published in The Local Historian, Volume 41, Number 1 – February 2011 Please see below the abstract published on the British Association for Local History’s website:- Bonnie White, ‘Sowing the seeds of patriotism? The Women’s Land Army in Devon, 1916-1918’, pp.13-27 The Women’s Land Army has received close attention from historians, including local […]
Jun 082014
The Independent article: A History of the First World War in 100 Moments: The new British front – in the fields
Mar 132014
From Fields to Factories: Women’s Work on the Home Front in the First World War starts on Friday 14th February, and runs until Saturday 10th May. The exhibition explores the role of women in the Women’s Land Army and Munitions and features pictures on loan from the Imperial War Museum, the Tate, London, and Ferens Art […]
Mar 072014
BBC News article: How Land Girls helped feed Britain to victory in WW1