Nicola Chester: Ghosts of the Farm

Name: Nicola Chester: Ghosts of the Farm
Start: 2025-11-13T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Grosvenor Hotel Shaftesbury

Thu, 13 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm UTC+00:00

Grosvenor Hotel Shaftesbury | Shaftesbury

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This is the story of Miss White, a woman who lived in the author’s village 80 years ago, a pioneer who realised her ambition to become a farmer during the Second World War, and how she worked to become accepted within this community. Nicola Chester, too, dreamed of becoming a farmer but working with horses was the only path open to her.
Was it easier for women to become farmers in the 1940s than it is now?Moving between Nicola’s own attempts to work outdoors and Miss White’s desire to farm a generation earlier, Nicola explores the parallels between their lives – and the differences.