Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize opens for 2024
Submissions are invited for the Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize offered by the British Agricultural History Society in memory of Joan Thirsk (1922–2013). The Thirsk prize is an annual award for the best book in British and Irish rural or agrarian history employing broadly historical methodology (so works of social anthropology, archaeology or of contemporary rural […]
Call for Sessions: Rural History 2025
Proposals for sessions at the biennial conference of the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO) are due by 30 September 2024.
Call for Papers: BAHS Spring Conference 2025
Call for Papers: Historical Perspectives on Rural Economies, Societies, Landscapes and Environment
BAHS Spring Conference 2025 will be in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, 24-25 April
The Spring conference of the British Agricultural History will take place on 24th and 25th April 2025 in the lovely surroundings of the Guildhall, Bury St. Edmund’s (Thursday 24th April) and the Food Museum, Stowmarket (Friday 25th April).
Rural History Today, Issue 47 (Summer 2024)
This issue of Rural History Today features articles by Ollie Douglas on the Model Farming Gallery at the Museum of English Rural Life; Joan Dils on parish accounts as historical sources; João P.R. Joaquim on Redcliffe N. Salaman’s efforts to establish a nationwide system of virus-free seed potato production in inter-war Britain; Andrew Gilson on agriculture in […]
Highlights from the BAHS Spring Conference 2024
Highlights from the BAHS Spring Conference 2024 Huge thanks to everyone who organised, attended, and presented at our Spring Conference in April! Here are a few of our photo highlights. Clare Hickman, Maxwell Ayamba, Debra Reid, Gary Mills, Sarah Holland, Spike Gibbs, and Isabel Hughes discussed teaching and rural history. (The Museum of English Rural […]
The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985
Paperbacks of the 2022 Thirsk Prize winner ‘The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985’, by Paul Brassley, Michael Winter, Matt Lobley, and David Harvey, are available now from Boydell & Brewer. Buy or recommend
Land prices in Scottish uplands: A perspective from Agricultural History Review
Recent headlines about land-use conflicts between agriculture and forestry reflect a centuries-long history of compromise.
Australia bans live sheep exports: A precedent from Agricultural History Review
In May, the federal Australian government announced its intention to ban live sheep exports by 2028. As Alan Renwick reported for The Conversation, Australia’s ban followed UK and New Zealand bans in 2023. The historical precedents are many and varied.
LIBRAL adds 15 volumes, spanning c.1800-1944
Elections have badly impeded LIBRAL over the past couple of months, but good to say the scanner’s assistant was happily re-elected. Here, before the second election of the year, is the LIBRAL circulation you should have had before the last election containing the usual mixture of the known and unknown. We now have over 1,250 […]