The Wigmore Lectures - The Women's Land Army

The Women's Land Army - a lecture by Dr Ann Knief
Wednesday, 21 March, 8pm
Tickets: £3.75

In 1939 the British Government, mindful of food shortages that occurred in the First World War and realising that war with Germany was again a possibility, decided to begin preparing. A call was put out for women to help with all types of farm work.

This talk looks at the lives of those who became part of the Women's Land Army; the jobs they were expected to do and their own thoughts on their work and recreation.

Dr Ann Knief has a PhD in History from the University of Kent and wrote her thesis on the Bevin Boys. As a result she became interested in other wartime workers, including land girls and munitions workers. She gives talks on various historical subjects to clubs and societies throughout the south-east.

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