Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, active during the Great Depression, is praised for putting men to work and improving state and national parks. Fireplaces and trails, culverts and ...

Introduction: Gardening in the New Century -- Part I. The First World War -- Chapter 1. Ladies of Leisure and Women of Action -- Chapter 2. The Land Girls -- Chapter 3. Sowing the Seeds of Victory -- ...

Middlesex, February 1944, 5am: It was dark and pouring with rain, as Connie, an 18-year-old Land Girl, climbed onto her heavy bike and pedalled the two miles to her local farm. She was exhausted.

Liberty Day -- The girl with a hoe behind the man with a gun. The right to serve : a British Land Army ; Female preparedness ; An agricultural army ; Suffrage agriculture ; Soil sisters ; A feminine ...

While the men are away fighting in WWII, two Women’s Land Army recruits join an Italian immigrant, her Indigenous domestic, and their draft-dodging farmhand to run the family farm – but can the ...

Now that the labour-needs and the availability of manpower has changed due to the outbreak of World War Two, Women are ...