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| Author | : Ann Kramer |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2009-04-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1848845944 |
"The impact of the land girls cannot be ignored. It was not just that women were working and farms had more women than men, women who were not part of the family or, for some of them, had even lived in the countryside before – but women were wearing trousers and filling in for men, some of whom would never return from war. For the women, their time as land girls changed their lives and how they viewed their own role in society and the family. Using original interviews and photographs from some of these land girls, historian Ann Kramer delves deeper than any previous study to understand the role of the land girls both during and after the Second World War."
| Author | : Ann Kramer |
| Publisher | : Remember When |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Women agricultural laborers |
| ISBN | : 9781844680917 |
| Author | : Ann Kramer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
"The Women's Land Army, better known as the Land Girls, were vital to the war effort from their early days in the First World War and their hard work in the Second World War until they were finally disbanded in October, 1950. Using original interviews and photographs, as well as other primary sources, Ann Kramer explores their impact from their early history to the present day with their achievements finally recognised with a Land Girls' commendation in the form of a badge. Typists, hairdressers and shop girls, as well as those who grew up tending the land, were suddenly expected to handle tractors, milk cows and plough fields with huge horses whilst the Lumber Jills (Women's Forestry Corps) felled trees. Training was minimal and facilities varied from the impressive Dumbleton Hall which Hitler intended to make his home, to huts where baths were rare. The Land Girls' lot was often a hard one - and they knew discrimination - but they gained friendship, love and a new-found knowledge of just what a woman could achieve in time of war and beyond. Their experiences helped ensure the nation could survive whilst its men were fighting but it is their individual stories, many recorded here for the first time, which show the reality of their lives, of how others perceived them, what they learnt, why they became Land Girls in the first place and just how liberating it could be - for the first time, women were wearing the trousers."--BOOK JACKET.
| Author | : Dee Gordon |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 172 |
| Release | : 2015-03-02 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0750963476 |
As much as 70 per cent of Essex is agricultural, and given its proximity to the capital it is not surprising that so many members of the Women’s Land Army found themselves on Essex farms and in Essex fields during the two world wars, doing their bit to make sure that Britain did not starve.This book not only includes interviews with some of the last surviving land ‘girls’ but also contains a wealth of material unearthed in diaries, letters and in the stories handed down from one generation to the next about women in Essex who were, literally, wearing the trousers. They were not all local girls, and many arrived from the cities never having seen a cow or a tractor before. But the British spirit persevered, and the wit and camaraderie that served us so well during those tumultuous years shines through in every story.
| Author | : Victoria Purman |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins Australia |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2019-05-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1489273956 |
A moving story of love, loss and survival against the odds by bestselling author of The Last of the Bonegilla Girls, Victoria Purman. It was never just a man's war... Melbourne,1942 War has engulfed Europe and now the Pacific, and Australia is fighting for its future. For spinster Flora Atkins, however, nothing much has changed. Tending her dull office job and beloved brother and father, as well as knitting socks for the troops, leaves her relatively content. Then one day a stranger gives her brother a white feather and Flora's anger propels her out of her safe life and into the vineyards of the idyllic Mildura countryside, a member of the Australian Women's Land Army. There she meets Betty, a 17-year-old former shopgirl keen to do her bit for the war effort and support her beloved, and the unlikely Lilian, a well-to-do Adelaide girl fleeing her overbearing family and theworld's expectations for her. As the Land Girls embrace their new world of close-knit community and backbreaking work, they begin to find pride in their roles. More than that, they start to find a kind of liberation. For Flora, new friendships and the singular joy derived from working the land offer new meaning to her life, and even the possibility of love. But as the clouds of war darken the horizon, and their fears for loved ones - brothers, husbands, lovers - fighting at the front grow, the Land Girls' hold on their world and their new-found freedoms is fragile. Even if they make it through unscathed, they will not come through unchanged... MORE PRAISE 'a well-researched and moving story' - Canberra Weekly
| Author | : Fenella J Miller |
| Publisher | : Boldwood Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2022-11-02 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1801628556 |
The instalment in Fenella J. Miller's bestselling Goodwill House series. August 1940 As Autumn approaches, Lady Joanna Harcourt is preparing for new guests at Goodwill House - land girls, Sally, Daphne and Charlie. Sally, a feisty blonde from the East End, has never seen a cow before, but she’s desperate to escape London and her horrible ex, Dennis. And although the hours are long and the work hard, Sal quickly becomes good friends with the other girls Daphne and Charlie and enjoys life at Goodwill House. Until Dennis reappears threatening to drag her back to London. Sal fears her life as a land girl is over, just as she finally felt worthy. But Lady Joanna has other ideas and a plan to keep Sal safe and doing the job she loves. Don't miss the next heart-breaking instalment in Fenella J. Miller's beautiful Goodwill House series. Praise for Fenella J. Miller: 'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane 'Engaging characters and setting which whisks you back to the home front of wartime Britain. A fabulous series!' Jean Fullerton
| Author | : Gill Clarke |
| Publisher | : Sansom (Acc) |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
Land girls of two world wars depicted by the nation's artists.
| Author | : Suchismita Satapathy |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 121 |
| Release | : 2023-12-25 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 9819976197 |
This book is about occupational health and safety in the workplace. Work-related productivity has been decreasing in most of the labor-intensive sectors on account of the fatigue and discomfort in workplaces, which is the most significant factor for consideration at all levels. Moreover, improper workplace design leads to most of the occupational accidents as well as injuries in production sites. This book explores discomfort in working environments and its impact on mental health in varying workplaces. It then offers some innovative solutions to provide comfort, safety, and sustainability in workplaces to reduce mental workload.
| Author | : Steve Bruce |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2013-01-10 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0191612189 |
The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety of recent attempts at rebuttal and refutation. Using the best available statistical and qualitative evidence Bruce considers the implications for the
| Author | : Marion Jefferies |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 2015-11-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1473849101 |
In Yorkshire, 2015 marks the centenary of the founding of the first Land Girl Hostel, near Boroughbridge, by Lady Margery Lawson Tancred. Yorkshire Women at War deals with the Women's Land Army Hostel policy during the First World War and it is the first exhaustive account to examine hostel life in the austerity of war and post-war Yorkshire between 1939-50.Marion Jefferies's account of over fifty Women's Land Army hostels is filled with quirky stories about the hectic lives of tired, noisy and hungry girls. There are tales of how the girls slept, ate and socialized in shared dormitories. It records how one old farmhouse had only a single oil lamp, which lit the dormitory; how candles were stuck to the bunk beds and the girls were forced to complain about wax spilling on to their clothes and bedding; and how, at Stockton, bats flew freely in the the girls' dormitories.Some wardens were domineering, neglectful, spiteful and inefficient. One warden was bitter towards her charges and even boxed a girl's ears. However, several other wardens were homely, kind and a real friend to the young girls, and they were remembered with great affection.Included in the book are Miss Jacob Smith's inspection reports of hostel life, which illustrate the real trials, worries and happiness of the girls, some only 16 or 17 years old and away from home for the first time.This is a serious, well-researched history of the Women's Land Army Hostels in Yorkshire and thanks to the excellent memories and joviality of many veterans contacted by the author, it has been illumined by numerous light-hearted moments of what was to them 'the great adventure of their lives'.
