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- 9781473849099
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Yorkshire Women at War: Story of the Women's Land Army Hostels
- Item Height
- 234mm
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books LTD
- Topic
- Local History, History
- Item Width
- 156mm
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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In Yorkshire, 2015 marks the centenary of the founding of the first Land Girl Hostel, near Boroughbridge, by Lady Margery Lawson Tancred. Yorkshire Women at War deals with the Women's Land Army Hostel policy during the First World War and it is the first exhaustive account to examine hostel life in the austerity of war and post-war Yorkshire between 1939-50. Marion Jefferies's account of over fifty Women's Land Army hostels is filled with quirky stories about the hectic lives of tired, noisy and hungry girls. There are tales of how the girls slept, ate and socialised in shared dormitories. It records how one old farmhouse had only a single oil lamp, which lit the dormitory; how candles were stuck to the bunk beds and the girls were forced to complain about wax spilling on to their clothes and bedding; and how, at Stockton, bats flew freely in the girls' dormitories. Some wardens were domineering, neglectful, spiteful and inefficient. One warden was bitter towards her charges and even boxed a girl's ears. However, several other wardens were homely, kind and a real friend to the young girls, and they were remembered with great affection. Included in the book are Miss Jacob Smith's inspection reports of hostel life, which illustrate the real trials, worries and happiness of the girls, some only 16 or 17 years old and away from home for the first time. This is a serious, well-researched history of the Women's Land Army Hostels in Yorkshire and thanks to the excellent memories and joviality of many veterans contacted by the author, it has been illumined by numerous light-hearted moments of what was to them 'the great adventure of their lives'. AUTHOR: Marion Jefferies is a graduate historian with degrees from Birmingham and two Yorkshire universities. Early in her career she was senior mistress at Cambridgeshire Village College, before lecturing in Education at St John's College, York. More recently she was a senior university lecturer, organizing courses in Countryside Management and Landscape Archaeology. Marion's interest in hostels was stimulated by the book she wrote on the history of her own home, which she discovered had been a WLA hostel. 40 illustrations
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Pen & Sword Books LTD
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Book Title
Yorkshire Women at War: Story of the Women's Land Army Hostels
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Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Local History, History
Publication Year
2016
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Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages
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234mm
Item Width
156mm
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United Kingdom
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