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1 online resource (ix, 207 pages) : illustrations |
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text file PDF |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Answering the call to service: the formation of the Women's Land Army -- Female preparedness, male authority: organizers and the Board of Agriculture -- Gender, service, patriotism: promoting the land army in wartime Britain -- "The lasses are massing": the Land Army in England and Wales -- "Respectable women": the Land Army in Scotland -- Return to the land: the Land Army after 1918 -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
In England, Scotland, and Wales during the First World War, the Women's Land Army evolved from a disparate group of training and educational programs into a national effort to organise women for home food production. Between managing the overstated propaganda expectations for women farm workers and combating public fears about the unwomanly activities of Land Girls, oragnisers successfully recruited, trained, and placed thousands of women on British farms and helped feed the nation during the turbulent years of 1917 to 1919. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Women's Land Army (Great Britain) -- History.
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Women's Land Army (Great Britain) |
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History. |
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Women's Land Army (Great Britain) -- Social aspects.
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Social aspects. |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Women -- Great Britain.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain -- Women. |
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20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 -- c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. |
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British & Irish history -- c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. |
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Social & cultural history -- c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. |
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First World War -- c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1) -- United Kingdom, Great Britain. |
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. |
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Women. |
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Great Britain. |
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European history -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- c 1910 to c 1919 -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. |
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Social & cultural history -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- c 1910 to c 1919 -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. |
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First World War -- United Kingdom, Great Britain -- c 1910 to c 1919 -- 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999. |
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Warfare and Defence. |
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World War (1914-1918) |
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1914-1918 |
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: White, Bonnie, 1977- Women's Land Army in First World War Britain. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, [2014] 9781137363893 (DLC) 2014019974 (OCoLC)873725388 |
| ISBN |
9781137363909 (electronic book) |
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1137363908 (electronic book) |
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9781137363893 |
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1137363894 |
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9781349473144 |
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1349473146 |
| Standard No. |
10.1057/9781137363909 |
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