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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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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 British Women’s Land Army was first set up in January 1917 for World War One. It was re-formed in June 1939, in preparation for World War Two. O ver 200,000 Land Girls worked in the WLA from June 1939 until November 1950. Women, known as Land Girls, replaced male farm workers who fought in the war. Coming from all backgrounds, Land Girls ...
Land girls were paid directly by the farmers who employed them. The minimum wage was 28s per week and from this, 14s was deducted for board and lodging. The average wage for male agricultural workers was 38s per week. The basic working week for land girls was 48 hours in winter and 50 in summer.
All episodes of Land Girls. Drama following the lives and loves of four girls in the Women's Land Army.
Land girls in Britain in WW2: the Women's Land Army. One of the main spearheads of the Government Campaign to keep Britain fed in World War Two was to bring more land into food production. Because the young men were going off into the armed forces, young fit women were first encouraged and later conscripted to work on the land.
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Susan Cookson. Esther Reeves 9 Episodes 2011. Jo Woodcock. Bea Holloway 15 Episodes 2011. Danny Webb. Sgt. Dennis Tucker 15 Episodes 2011. Carolyn Pickles. 13 Episodes 2011. Mykola Allen.
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