Soldiers who’ve both served in combat and mastered their job skills will soon earn a new badge recognizing both achievements. The Master Combat Badge indicates that the soldier wearing the new device ...

In Season 5 of All Creatures Great and Small, a Land Girl from Leeds named Doris, stationed on Danby’s farm, befriends Jenny Alderson. But what exactly was the Women’s Land Army and who were the Land ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, active during the Great Depression, is praised for putting men to work and improving state and national parks. Fireplaces and trails, culverts and ...

Introduction: Gardening in the New Century -- Part I. The First World War -- Chapter 1. Ladies of Leisure and Women of Action -- Chapter 2. The Land Girls -- Chapter 3. Sowing the Seeds of Victory -- ...