the WLA of both World Wars, on the Fochabers estate in Moray, Scotland. The sculpture was designed by Peter Naylor. In October 2014, a memorial statue to the Women's Timber Corps and both incarnations of the Women's Land Army was unveiled at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, England. In popular culture The Women's Land Army was the subject of: The Land Girls (1998), a film loosely based on Angela Huth's book Land Girls (1995) The ITV sitcom Backs to the Land (1977–78) The BBC dramatic TV series Land Girls (2009–11) The Powell and Pressburger 1944 film A Canterbury Tale features as the female lead a Land Girl, portrayed by Sheila Sim. It also figured largely in: Series 3, Episode 3 (2004) of the ITV detective series Foyle's War, entitled "They Fought in the Fields". In the 2002 detective novel A Presumption of Death by Jill Paton Walsh and Dorothy L. Sayers, the plot centres on Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey trying to solve the murder of a land girl in Hertfordshire. The Play For Today episode Rainy Day Women. See also Australian Women's Land Army Air Transport Auxiliary, civilian female pilots who flew newly built planes from the factories to airfields Mechanised Transport Corps, British women's organisation that provided drivers for government departments and other agencies during WWII Women's Auxiliary Air Force Boatwomen's training scheme, a replacement for men conscripted from the inland waterways Home front during World War II Rosie the Riveter Victory garden References Further reading Bates, Martha. Snagging Turnips and Scaling Muck: The Women's Land Army in Westmorland Kendal Helm Press 2001 Kramer, Ann. Land Girls and their Impact, Remember When (2008), . Rattray, Veronica. My Land Girl Years, Athena Press (2009), . Twinch, Carol. Women on the Land: Their story during two world wars, Lutterworth Press (1990), . Tyrer, Nicola. They Fought in the Fields: The Women's Land Army: The Story of a Forgotten Victory, Mandarin (1997), . External links Archives relating to the Women's Land Army Women's Land Army Spartacus Schoolnet WW2 Land Army BBC Information Page The story of the Women's Land Army in Leavenheath,Suffolk BBC Audio Slideshow about one woman's Land Army experiences Yorkshire Museum of Farming Women's Land Army collections Museum of English Rural Life British women in World War II United Kingdom home front during World War II Women's organisations based in the United Kingdom History of agriculture in