Women's land army

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We have a vast collection of documents about the Women’s Land Army, including a wonderful collection of photographs…

WWII Bellingham, Land Army Girls (1943) As the prospect of war became increasingly likely, the government wanted to increase the amount of food grown within Britain. In order to grow more food, more help was needed on the farms and so the government started the Women's Land Army in June 1939. The majority of the Land Girls already lived in the countryside but more than a third came from London and the industrial cities of the north of England.

Land army girls at Florence Farm, Wilburton, Cambs

The Women's Land Army (aka "land girls") was an organization set up in the UK during the First and Second World Wars to bring women into the countryside to do agricultural labor, freeing up the men for combat. If you want to get much more of the flavor of farm life during World War II in England, watch the Wartime Farm series - they talk about the land girls during several of the episodes. These are all photos of World War II land girls, mostly in England, a few in Australia. Then there was…