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This is a photo of my beloved grandmother, Audrey. It was taken in 1939, when she was 17, the same age I am now. On her right

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I have a secret obsession with all-girl institutions. Growing up a tomboy, I’d read about British boarding schools and daydream about the joys of bosom friends and uniforms. When I actually w…

D 8815. Three members of the Women's Land Army do the 'Silo-Step' as part of their training at the Northampton Institute of Agriculture. The silo is filled with layers of hay and molasses and then the Land Girls stamp around on it until it is reduced to one compact mass

This ingenious recipe comes from one of the Ministry of Food leaflets that were issued during WW2 and is leaflet 11. The leaflet was all about how to cook with dried eggs and included recipes such as bacon and egg pie, egg cutlets, scrambled eggs and Yorkshire pudding. I was unable to obtain dried eggs, so I used one of my own hen's eggs in this recipe for my Wartime Rations week.

The Commons has photos of women farming as an everyday activity, and women farming as part of a war effort; women farming with their families, alone, or in groups of peers; women harvesting citrus and cotton and nearly everything in between.

History and Information on the Plough Inn at Trysull in Staffordshire with Photographs, Licensees, Local Folklore, Census Data, Newspaper Articles and Genealogy Connections

The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture replac...