Saturday 10 December 2022Room MAL 153Birkbeck College, London, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HX[Note the change of location and the date!] How to get there [link to Google maps] The British Agricultural History Society is delighted to be holding its first in-person Winter Conference since 2019. Programme |
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| 10:00 | REGISTRATION AND COFFEE | |
| 10:30 | Kathleen Pribyl (University of East Anglia and University of Antwerp) | ‘The impact of summer drought in pre-industrial England’ |
| 11:15 | Elly Robson (University of Cambridge), Eugene Costello (Stockholm University), John Morgan (Bristol University), Others TBC | Round table: ‘Environmental and Agricultural History of the Early Modern Period’ |
| 12:45 | LUNCH | |
| 13:45 | Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University) and Paul Warde (University of Cambridge) |
‘Environmentalism and Agriculture in the 1960s’
a) ‘Sustaining ”the Land” within Agricultural Modernity’ b) ‘Before the battle lines: pesticides and the response to Silent Spring’ |
| 15:00 | TEA | |
| 15:30 | Emelyn Rude (University of Cambridge) | ‘Fisheries and the American fertilizer industry: the case of the 1879 menhaden collapse’ |
| 16:30 | CONFERENCE ENDS | |
Registration
The cost of the conference is £35 with lunch, or £20 without. Registration is via EventBrite only.