British Agricultural History Society - for the study of rural history, countryside history and landscape history

To promote the study of agricultural history, and the history of the rural economy and society, the BAHS publishes the Agricultural History Review and Rural History Today. The Society holds conferences twice a year: a day meeting in London in early December, and a residential conference at different locations in Britain in Spring. These are opportunities for professional and non-professional historians to meet, mix and exchange views in a friendly and sociable atmosphere.
Latest news: We are pleased to announce the podcasts of Professor Bruce Campbell's four Ellen McArthur Lectures ('The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the 13th and 14th Centuries'). These will be of great interest, especially to those planning to attend this year's Seminar in the medieval economy and society at Wells (5-8 July).		The 2013 BAHS Spring Conference was held in April , at Askham Bryan College near York. Professor Mark Overton was returned unopposed as the new President of the Society, and Dr Carl J. Griffin was elected as a new member of the executive committee. The next Spring Conference will be held on 7-9 April 2014 at Denman College, Oxfordshire, home of the WI.
		Chris Dyer's A country merchant has received the 2012 Henry Wallace Award for the best book on agricultural history outside the US, from the Agricultural History Society (of America). Our congratulations go to Chris.
The next editions of both the Agricultural History Review and Rural History Today will appear in June. We'd like to draw your attention to the Society's policy on Open Access to publicly funded research.			We have received a call for chapter proposals for Animals and History, an edited collection exploring how we approximate the interspecific past.
The second conference of the European Rural History Organisation will be held at the University of Bern, Switzerland, 19 – 22 August 2013. Registration for the conference at the 'early bird' rate ends on 15 May 2013.		A colloquium celebrating the work of Tawney and Postan, entitled Agriculture and Industry: the Development of Rural England, 1200-1700 will be held at the IHR on Monday 1 July 2013.
The CHAM International Conference, Colonial (Mis)understandings: Portugal and Europe in Global Perspective, 1450-1900, will take place in Lisbon, July 17-20, 2013.	The next annual conference of the US Agricultural History Society, Crops & cultures: cultivating commodities & communities will be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada, 13 – 15 June 2013.	A conference on Changes in field systems: comparative approaches – Pace, contexts and forms will be held in Rennes, Autumn 2013. Early bird registration for ESSHC 2014 is open until 31 December 21013.. The latest issue of Agricultural History Review is available on IngentaConnect (using the links here).
		The latest issue of Rural History Today includes articles about the late-medieval use of vetches as fodder (Gavin Bowie), about the herd of Herefords kept by the fifth Lord Berwick at his Attingham estate in the mid-nineteenth century (Claude Hart), and about farm women's experiences in the 1940s (Karen Sayer). There are reviews of Neil Christie and Paul Stamper's Medieval rural settlement. Britain and Ireland, AD 800–1600 and Stuart Wrathmell (ed.), A history of Wharram Percy and its neighbours, among other recent publications.