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Land Girls (TV series) Land Girls is a British television period drama series, first broadcast on BBC One on 7 September 2009. Land Girls was created by Roland Moore and commissioned by the BBC to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War. The programme was BBC Daytime's first commission of a period drama.
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Dec 22, 2009 · Price (RRP): 14.99. After a two-year existence in the First World War, Britain’s Women’s Land Army was reformed in 1939, initially to bring in that year’s harvest. By 1943 more than 80,000 ‘Land Girls’ were producing 70 per cent of the nation’s food. Written by the advisor to the recent BBC drama series Land Girls, this book tells ...
- Targets For Bringing More Land Into Production
- The Women's Land Army, Land Girls and Lumber Jills
- Propaganda For Land Girl Volunteers
- Targets and Achievements of The Women's Land Army
- The End of The WW2 Women's Land Army
The Ministries of Food and Agriculture did calculations about land use and human need and found that it was far more efficient to use land for arable farming than for keeping sheep and cattle. Thus it became clear that land currently used for animals needed to be taken over for crops. Although this meant a decrease in the amount of meat produced, t...
To meet the targets, Britain had to dedicate every bit of land for food production - and this required manual labour. Because the young men were being conscripted into the armed forces, young fit women were first encouraged and later conscripted to work on the land. They were known as land girls and lumber jills, and were part of the Women's Land A...
There was considerable propaganda about how wonderful land girls were. As a young child, I was even encouraged to tell people that I was going to be a land girl when I grew up! Heaven help us if the war had lasted that long! The posters always showed land girls as happy or confident in what they were doing, although I doubt if that was the reality....
Within five years domestic food production had almost doubled. By the end of the war in 1945 there had been a 90% increase in the domestic production of wheat, and much of the 'new' agricultural land turned over to food production had not had crops growing on it since Roman times. The result was that by 1944 the country could feed itself for approx...
The Women's Land Army was not officially disbanded until 21st of October 1949. This was because it took time for the career farm workers who had served in the armed forces to be demobbed - and Britain still needed to grow as much from its land as possible because food shortages and rationingcontinued after the war. Text and images are copyright If ...
The Women's Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created in 1917 by the Board of Agriculture during the First World War to bring women into work in agriculture, replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLA were commonly known as Land Girls (Land Lassies). [1] The Land Army placed women with farms that ...
The MoS created the Women’s Timber Corps (WTC), a subset of the Women’s Land Army, in 1942. Between 1942 and 1946 over 8,500 “Lumber Jills” throughout England, Scotland, and Wales cut down trees and worked in sawmills, ensuring the British army had the lumber it needed to keep its men at sea, in the air, and safe from Axis chemical ...
By 1943 there were more than 80,000 women working in the Land Army. They were nicknamed Land Girls. The jobs ranged from milking cows, lambing, managing poultry, ploughing, gathering crops, digging ditches and carrying out farm maintenance work. 6,000 women worked in the timber corps, chopping down trees and running sawmills.
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Land Girls was given an early evening time slot of 5.15pm and it was later repeated on Sunday evenings. [20] [22] Land Girls made its debut in Canada on 6 June 2010 on the Sundance Channel. [23] The second series of Land Girls began airing on 17 January 2011. [14]
