‘At headquarters she was a number’, at the local level… ‘she becomes an individual’. ‘She is no longer W.L.A. No. 657085, she is Betty or Madge’. Vita Sackville-West, ‘Women’s Land Army’, p.15. The transformation...
Devised by The Lion’s Part Directed by Andy Naylor and Issy HuckleBased on true accounts. A revealing, funny, moving portrait of four women who sign up to join the Women’s Land Army during World War II. 9, 10, 16, 17, 23, 24,...
Charlotte Smith meets some of the Women’s Land Army – Land Girls and Lumber Jills – who kept Britain in food and timber during the Second World War. They were invited to a tea...
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Sandringham Estate, Norfolk: Land Girls Work the Royal Farm