11 Years of Rural Service
The Women’s Land Army, known as the ‘Land Girls’, was officially disbanded in October 1950, 11 years after its formation - 84,000 women worked the land and forests of Britain when the Second World War was at its peak in 1943.
Related collections you might be interested in:
- Digitisation of Countryside Images
- A Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) collection of countryside-related images from 1920 to 1965 - includes images of the Women’s Land Army at work mending tractors, ploughing fields and milking cattle.
- Freeze Frame
- Over 20,000 images documenting the history of polar exploration.
- Image Path
- Slides of rare and disappearing 20th century diseases.
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