This is the first comprehensive account of British farming in the First World War. As such it offers revisions of many views which have become accepted over the

This volume comprehensively describes how British farmers coped with the problems of shortage of labour and other factors of production, as well as assessing ho

The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain’s twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperia

The women who kept the farms going while the soldiers were Over There

An “insightful and extensive” history of the women who took over agricultural duties in England during World War I (Sussex Living Magazine). One could be fo