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Description: | British civilian farm worker in Itchen and Peartree, GB, 1915-1919
REEL 1 Aspects of employment as farm worker in Itchen and Peartree, Hampshires, 1914-1919: reasons for working on rented family farm; food; foot and mouth disease; story of escaped piglets; memory of Armistice Day, 11/11/1918; food queues; memory of brother's leave and demobilisation; food; milk delivery round; question of wearing trousers and attitude towards Women's Land Army; description of farm work; washing clothes and first experience of soap powder; question of food shortages.
REEL 2 Continues: daily life and recreational activities; memory of peace celebrations; farm work and transport. Post-war life and employment: employment as domestic servant; question of overtime; pay and prices; husband and brother's employment; story of brother claiming unemployment benefit, 1919; trends in employment in shops; opinion of married women in employment. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Stone, Marjorie | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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