Land Girls and Lumber Jills is an exhibit at Scotland's
National War Museum. It explores the history of the
Women's Land Army and the
Women's Timber Corps. These two organizations were formed during the First World War to compensate for shortages in male laborers in agriculture and forestry, respectively. The museum's exhibition ties in a
collection on flickr,
interviews and a
book available for order online. Other sources online will allow one to hear
audio samples of the Land Girls' stories, read
Land Girls' and
Lumber Jills' memoirs and watch
old propaganda clips about them or more recent
documentary videos (
more on YT).
Officially commemorated in 2008, these civilian service organizations have also been the subject of a film,
"The Land Girls" (
trailer), an
ITV sitcom, and a
BBC series (Episode
1,
2,
3,
4,
5)
The British Women's Land Army model was successfully replicated in the U.S. with the
Woman's Land Army of America (whose members were known as
"farmerettes") and in Australia with the
Australian Women's Land Army.
posted by HE Amb. T. S. L. DuVal
on Dec 16, 2010 -
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H1t3r pwnd UK, USA! A gunnery has been discovered, buried beneath a metre of iron-rich
Normandy soil. It was likely part of a ruse on the part of the Axis forces: a fake gunnery was also built, less conspicuously, and
it took the abuse. It was forgotten -- or the memory at least buried by the locals and those who fought there -- until recently. Now it appears to explain some puzzles about
Bloody Omaha [
pic].
posted by five fresh fish
on Feb 7, 2006 -
49 comments
