Occupations

Straw Hat Maker

During the Regency period (1795-1837 approx.) the essential accessory for men and women was the straw hat or bonnet and many straw platters and milliners kept the nobility, gentry and ladies fashionably dressed in a variety of styles. Each style had a name, often...

Women’s Land Army in WWII

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Per the 1941 Agricultural Farm Survey there were only 11 women working on the farms in Benhall & Sternfield, all on a part-time basis, no full-time workers.From the book Working the Land by Len Sharman. “As time went on labour became more and more scarce during...