Tagged: Yorkshire
Running the WLA: YWCA Hostels
While there is a lot of information on hostels run by the WLA, there is much less on hostels run by the YWCA. As one of the purposes of this monthly series is to highlight previously-neglected aspects of the running of the WLA, the YWCA’s involvement seems appropriate to explore.
Running the WLA: From WLA number to Land Girl
‘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...
November: Land Girls and Lumber Jills Reading
Some Land Girls and Lumber Jill’s spent some of their free time reading, whether it be books, or the latest edition of The Land Girl magazine. Here, the collage shows how women could read...
Searching for Marietta, Land Girl in Skipton, Yorkshire
Ermanno is looking for information on Marietta, most likely a Land Girl in Skipton who knew his grandfather, Italian Prisoner of War, Congedo Cesare Antonio during the Second World War. Marietta might have been...