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Thanks are due to the following:
The Imperial War Museum for permission to use extracts from Meet the Members: A Record of the Timber Corps of the Womens Land Army; The Womens Land Army by Vita Sackville-West; and An Anthology of Verse by members of the Womens Land Army. All three have been reprinted by the Imperial War Museum as part of their Women at War Series
Brenzett Aeronautical Museum, and Ray Brignall, for permission to take and use photographs of exhibits in the Museum.
Former members of the Womens Land Army, who gave me permission to use extracts from personal interviews and to reproduce photographs and memorabilia They are named in the introduction to the book.
Pamela McDowell for permission to use extracts from her private papers, Memories of the Womens Land Army in Kent 1944-45 , held in the Imperial War Museum, Documents Department
Sutton Publishing for permission to quote from Annice Gibbs account in Women at War 1939-1945 The Home Front by Carol Harris, published in 2000.
The Random House Group Ltd. for permission to quote from The Rewards of Hard Labour by Pat Parker, taken from What Did You Do in the War, Mummy? by Mavis Nicholson, published by Chatto & Windus, 1995.
Hall, Annie, Land Girl , Ex Libris Press, 1993
Huxley,Gervais, Lady Denman, G.B.E ., Chatto & Windus, 1961
Knighton, Joyce, Land Army Days: Cinderellas of the Soil , Aurora Publishing, 1994
Sackville-West, Vita, The Womens Land Army , Michael Joseph, 1944, reprinted Imperial War Museum, 1997
Tyrer, Nicola, They Fought in the Fields , Mandarin Paperbacks, 1997
An Anthology of Verse by members of the Womens Land Army first published c.1945, reprinted 1997, Imperial War Museum
Meet the Members: A Record of the Timber Corps of the Womens Land Army , first published c.1945, reprinted 1997, Imperial War Museum
The Land Girl 1940-1950, magazine of the Womens Land Army
The Landswoman 1918-20, magazine of the Womens Land Army
The Sussex Express and County Herald (selected issues covering 1939-45)
Adie, Kate, Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War , Hodder & Stoughton, 2003
Braybon, Gail & Summerfield, Penny, Out of the Cage: Womens Experiences in Two World Wars , Pandora Press, 1987
Fountain, Nigel, consulting editor, Women at War: Voices from the Twentieth Century from the Imperial War Museum , Michael OMara Books Ltd, 2002, includes CD
Gardiner, Juliet, Wartime Britain 1939-1945 , Headline Book Publishing, 2005
Goodall, Felicity, Voices from the Home Front: Personal Experiences of Wartime Britain 1939-45 , David & Charles, 2004
Harris, Carol, Women at War 1939-1945: The Home Front , Sutton Publishing, 2000
Marlow, Joyce, ed., The Virago Book of Women and the Great War , Virago Press, 1998
Nicholson, Mavis, What Did You Do in the War, Mummy? , Chatto & Windus, 1995
Sheridan, Dorothy, ed., Wartime Women: A Mass Observation Anthology 1937-45 , Phoenix Press, 1990
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
The Times (Digital Archive)
Websites
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/
Includes personal accounts from women who served in the Womens Land Army and Womens Timber Corps.
www.landarmy.org.uk
Oral accounts on DVD plus study pack for teachers on the Womens Land Army and Timber Corps. DVD available through Quiet Hero Productions. See site.
Brenzett Aeronautical Museum, Brenzett, Romney Marsh, Kent.
Formerly a Womans Land Army hostel, includes a permanent exhibition on the WLA. Open to visit from Easter end October, weekends.
Imperial War Museum, London
Holds archived material about the WLA and a permanent exhibition.
The Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading, Reading
Womens Land Army Museum, Dover, Kent
1a. The stained glass window in St Clements Church, Old Town Hastings was bombed during the war and the new one was dedicated to the war services. The model for the land girl (bottom left) was Betty Merrit, who served in the WLA from 194149, mainly as a tractor driver in East Sussex.
2a. Hazel Kings (nee Bannister) membership card for the WLA Club.
3a. Hazels release certificate thanking her for her service to the WLA (194346).
4a. Cover of a Sussex WLA exhibition programme at the Corn Exchange, Brighton 1947.
5a. Advert for the Sussex WLA exhibition in Brighton 1947, which included dancing, handicrafts and fortune telling.
6a. Flyer for the WLA Benevolent Fund, which was set up in 1942 to assist land girls suffering financial hardship. The British government did not give land girls the same post-war support as women in other services, notably Civil Defence and the ATS. Following an outcry, the government gave 150,000 to the Fund.
7a. WLA badge with its wheatsheaf motif.
8a. The same motif is repeated on the banner of the Land Army News.
9a. WLA armband and badge. A half diamond denoted six months service.
10a. The red and green colours are reversed in this version of the WLA armband.
11a. WLA doll made by Mrs M. Culling of Kennington on display at the Brenzett Aeronautical Museum, a former WLA hostel.
12a13a. WLA Christmas card.
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