Essential role of women who fed the nation during the war years is woven into history

Members of the Women’s Land Army are being honoured for feeding the nation during the First and Second World Wars at the Yorkshire Museum of Farming.

The museum is home to the largest permanent exhibition about the 80,000-plus women who stepped into agriculture to replace men sent to war. Items in the exhibition have been donated by former Land Army members who will be greeted at a reunion at the museum near York on Saturday by a willow-woven sculpture of a Land Army girl on a bicycle produced by North Yorkshire-based Dragon Willow.

Naomi Beeley, the museum’s community outreach officer said: “We’ve met so many lovely people who worked hard to feed us during the war. The reunion is our way of thanking them for making the exhibition, which is now one-year-old, such a success.”

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