Dianne Bardsley | The Land Girls | Historical Talk

Name: Dianne Bardsley | The Land Girls | Historical Talk
Start: 2024-06-26T17:30:00+12:00
Location: 329 West Street (SH1), Ashburton, New Zealand 7700

Schedule

Wed Jun 26 2024 at 05:30 pm

UTC+12:00

Location

329 West Street (SH1), Ashburton, New Zealand 7700 | Ashburton, CA

To celebrate the closing of our exhibition Home Front Heroines, join us for a special talk with Dianne Bardsley about land girls in Aotearoa.
Throughout the 1990s Dianne Bardsley travelled across Aotearoa to trace and interview women who served in the Women’s Land Service during World War Two. Although she had found meagre official records in National Archives and the National Library, with the help of retired wartime land girl Joan Butland, she managed to find and interview 220 women in person and many more by written interview. Her book The Land Girls: In a Man’s World 1939-1946 was published by Otago University Press in 2000 and reprinted the same year.