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 […]

Land prices in Scottish uplands: A perspective from Agricultural History Review

Photo by Antoine Fabre on Unsplash 22 April 2024 On 20 April, Farmers Weekly’s Michael Priestley wrote that land prices in Scottish uplands are so far above average agricultural values that “forestry interests continue to outcompete livestock producers for land”. It’s happened before—in the late 18th and mid-19th centuries. As J.M. Lindsay wrote in Agricultural […]