Women Farm Workers (1916)

This Topical Budget film shows women taking over men's roles during WWI for the Women's National Land Service Corps - the equivalent of the Land Army in WWII.

For more information about Topical Budget newsreels, visit:
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For information about the BBC Learning campaign 1918-2008: Ninety Years of Remembrance, marking the 90th anniversary of Armistice, visit:
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Category:

Film & Animation

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• BFI
• WWI
• first
• world
• war
• land
• girls
• farm
• pigs
• cows
• calves
• women's
• national
• service
• corps
• home
• front
• remembrance

[Zelda1956]

chanctonbury63, very true, but the hats are very like the cloche hats of the 1920's

[chanctonbury63]

Women did jobs like these because the men were dead.

[chanctonbury63]

@Zelda1956 Not in all that muck.

[MrStablelad]

Thank You

[Zelda1956]

Looks more like the 20's or 30's to me from the style of the clothes, in 1916 the women would have been wearing longer skirts

[MorroccoSurrogate]

What a relic.

They're wearing pants, too, aren't they? Not even bloomers, really.

[ilovepuppyinmypocket]

i think so?

[ilovepuppyinmypocket]

shut up

[applecounty]

Does any record exist of which part of the UK this was filmed?

[leefaichai]

thanks a lot!