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From Weeds to Wheat

... destroyed, the land is under wheat, and the grass-land in the foreground will be ploughed-up to increase the wheal supply of the country. LAND GIRLS AT WORK IN BEDFORDSHIRE The thrashing tackle is manned by members of the Woman's Land ...

Up and down the land

... annually without increasing our own pig population of 2|- millions to any great extent. The Committee of Management of the Woman's Land Army Benevolent Fund has announced that the amount raised has exceeded £100,000, which was the target fixed for 1944. Up to ...

American Woman on W.L.A

... American Woman on W.L.A. WE reproduce, by permission of Mrs. Margaret Drexel Biddle, an extract from her book, The Women-of England, published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. It is taken from the chapter entitled Land Army. Mrs. Biddle ...

Women in Uniform: 6. The Land Army

... Women in Uniform 6. The Land Army The Women's Land Army can, surprisingly, claim a forty-year-old history. Land Girls date from 1899 when the Women's Farm and Garden Association was formed. This led a quiet and unpublicised life until the ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1939
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 854 | Page: 21 | Tags: Photographs 

CAREER ON THE LAND

... opportunities for pro motion has kept a lot of women out of the Land Army up to the present, but this problem is being tackled. A new system is about to come into force, allowing Land Army women to take proficiency badges which, naturally, will be of service ...

Published: Tuesday 01 June 1943
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1003 | Page: 39 | Tags: Photographs 

WOMAN'S SPHERE

... women or the harvest will suffer and winter find us in a bad plight for food. The minimum number of women wanted for the land army is 30,000. The Secretary, Food Production Department, 57, Palace Street, S.W.I, will gladly supply all information required ...

Published: Saturday 25 May 1918
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1021 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

NO WOMAN'S ... ... to be ABROGATED?

... NO WOMAN'S U s|D to u ABROGATED? I The Strange Celibate Community of Mount Atl, Empire, by the Sublime Port, and by the Greek Coy( itablisKed by Lonstantine the Great, Maintained by the Byzantine ent, is now, for the first time since the first century ...

Published: Saturday 12 April 1930
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 711 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

WOMAN'S SPHERE

... women to garner in, or we may literally perish or be beaten. The need for labour on the land is absolute and urgent, and it is essential for every able-bodied woman to leave even her half-day's work in hospital and hospital supply depot and anything else ...

Published: Saturday 13 April 1918
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1819 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

WOMAN'S SPHERE

... WOMAN'S SPHERE THE second week in July, 1905, will long be remembered as having been quite the most brilliantly successful one from a social point of view, terminating with the final of the inter- regimental match at Hurlingham, which was honoured by ...

Published: Saturday 15 July 1905
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2122 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

The Bystander in Many Lands

... Tke Bystander in Many Lands (IOs. 6d. is paid for each photograph published on this page of readers in out-of-the-way quarters of the world) Among the Relics of Ancient Glory I hese two little Mexican readers are seated among the ruins ot Mitton Ertado ...

Published: Wednesday 24 April 1907
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 169 | Page: 35 | Tags: Photographs