Source: Catherine Procter Collection Land Girls on a rat catcher float, 29th October 1945. This photograph was distributed to the New York Bureau to share the work of the British WLA across the Atlantic....
In Britain, the WLA employed around 234,000 women on the land during the course of the First and Second World Wars. What was new during both World War One and Two was the unprecedented...
Can we trace Miss D Hawksworth mentioned here in ‘The Land Girl’. Any idea on who she worked or who she married? Any help much appreciated!
From left to right, top to bottom: A member of the Women’s Land Army is trained in the traditional horse-drawn method of ploughing at the WLA training centre at Cannington in Somerset, c 1940....
As a new initative for 2016, Stuart Antrobus and I will be replacing the ‘Cartoon of the Month’ with ‘Farming Activity of the Month’. We will try to reflect the farming tasks which would...
Yeovil, Somerset: The Flax-Picking Land Girls