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Series
Board of Agriculture and successors: Women's Land Army
Catalogue reference: MAF 59
What's it about?
MAF 59
This series contains minutes of county committees, collections of photographs and recruiting posters, and selected files, mostly from the period 1938 to 1950 relating to the Women's Land Army.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 59
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Title (The name of the record)
- Board of Agriculture and successors: Women's Land Army
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Date (When the record was created)
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1916-1985
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains minutes of county committees, collections of photographs and recruiting posters, and selected files, mostly from the period 1938 to 1950 relating to the Women's Land Army.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Board of Agriculture, Food Production Department, Womens Branch, Womens Land Army, 1917-1919
- Ministry of Food, Womens Land Army, 1939-1945
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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174 volume(s)
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Farming
- Sex and gender
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10460/
Catalogue hierarchy
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Board of Agriculture and successors: Women's Land Army
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