Horace Nicholls Photographed the First Women’s Land Army

The photographer shows us Great Britain’s farms during World War I

A Women’s Land Army member leads a horse out from the stables during World War I. By Horace Nicholls from Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain).

Agriculture wore a different face by 1910. Railroads, faster ships, and refrigeration technology connected more distant rural places to urban centers. Food became cheaper. In Great Britain, many women had already turned away from agriculture as a source of…