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).
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 […]
Spike Gibbs and Steve Hindle win Thirsk Prize 2024
Like last year, two books stood out. The first, Spike Gibbs’ ‘Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in late Medieval and Early Modern England’ (Cambridge University Press), is a book that the panel agreed will shape the historiography for many years to come. The second, Steve Hindle’s ‘The Social Topography of a Rural Community: Scenes from a Labouring Life’ (Oxford University Press), is a wonderful, illuminating microhistory of one early modern Warwickshire community.
Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize 2023
This year, for the first time, the Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize was split between two authors: Professor Christopher Dyer and Dr Jane Rowling.