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 Life offers free learning resources.)
Clémence Gadenne-Rosfelder explained changes to pig farming and to farm buildings in mid-twentieth century Brittany using oral history.
Sarah Holland showed how mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century discourses of health and disability operated in rural England (for more on this, see Sarah’s recent book chapter).
Thomas Jen presented evidence about British wheat production in the aftermath of Mount Tambora’s eruption in 1815.
For our invited keynote lecture this year, Steve Hindle presented a detailed early modern history of social reproduction in an industrialising village in Warwickshire, drawing on his new book with Oxford University Press.