‘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...
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