Holding the Home Front: The Women's Land Army in the First World War

An "insightful and extensive" history of the women who took over agricultural duties in England during World War I (Sussex Living Magazine).

One could be forgiven for supposing that the story of the Women's Land Army starts in 1939 during World War II. But it's a much older and more complicated history . . .

British agricultural policy during the First World War was held up as a success story; domestic food production was higher at the end of the war than at the start, the average calorif...