Histories
Foat, Joanna. Lumberjills: Britain’s Forgotten Army. The History Press, 2019.
Gray, Affleck. Timber!: Memories of Life in the Scottish Women’s Timber Corps, 1942-46. Edited by Uiga Robertson and John Robertson. Vol. 7. Flashbacks. East Linton: Tuckwell in association with European Ethnological Research Centre, 1998.
Ministry of Supply. Meet the Members: A Record of the Timber Corps of the Women’s Land Army. Bristol: Bennett Brothers Ltd., 1944.
Journal articles
Swanston, Catherine N. “The Health of Forestry Workers: A Survey of the Women’s Timber Corps of Great Britain.” British Journal of Industrial Medicine vol. 3, no. 1 (1946): 1–10
Vickers, Emma “‘The Forgotten Army of the Woods’: The Women’s Timber Corps during the Second World War.” The Agricultural History Review vol. 59, no. 1 (2011).
Memoirs
Williams, Mavis. Lumber Jill: Her Story of Four Years in the Women’s Timber Corps, 1942-45. Bradford on Avon: Ex Libris Press, 1994.
Parker, Pat. “The Rewards of Hard Labour, Lumberjill from London.” In What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?, edited by Mavis Nicholas, 55–63. Bridgend: Seren, 2010.
Websites
Suffolk Archives Online Exhibition on the Women’s Timber Corps
Fiction
Davies, Alexandra. Lumber Jills: The Unsung Heroines of World War II. Illinois: Albert Whitman & Company, 2009
Foat, Joanna. The Lumberjills: Stronger Together. Merrow Downs Press, 2022.
Yendall, Helen. The Highland Girls at War, HQ (Harper Collins), 2022.
Yendall, Helen. The Highland Girls on Guard, HQ (Harper Collins), 2024.
Yendall, Helen. The Highland Girls Report for Duty, HQ (Harper Collins), 2025.
Any suggestions to add to this list? E-mail Cherish at info@womenslandarmy.co.uk with your recommendations.