Episode Synopsis "Fertile Ground: Records of the Women’s Land Army in North Yorkshire."

Lydia Dean and Sally-Anne Shearn introduce the Borthwick’s newest project ‘Fertile Ground: Records of the Women’s Land Army in North Yorkshire’, drawing on the archive of Lady Celia Milnes Coates, WLA County Chairman for the North Riding. We would like to thank Charlotte Catton, Fiona Neale, Natasha MacMahon, Graham Hughes, and Catherine Firth for kindly contributing readings from documents in the archive.

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