BAHS Annual Conference 2027
The Society’s Annual Conference will be held at the University of Lancaster on 16-18 April 2027. This conference celebrates the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Society in 1952.…
Swing Riots and Bossenden Rising Festival
Swing Riots and Bossenden Rising Festival
Taking place on 31st May, 13.00-19.30, on the cricket pitch at Mount Ephraim Gardens in Kent, this event will commemorate the struggle of agricultural workers in 19th century Kent. The…
Thirsk Prize 2026 – Winners Announced
Thirsk Prize 2026 – Winners Announced
The committee has decided to award this year’s Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize to two excellent books, written by scholars who both make a considerable impact on the field of agricultural…
BAHS Spring Conference 2026
BAHS Spring Conference 2026
The Spring conference of the British Agricultural History will take place on Saturday 2nd May at Channing Hall in Sheffield City Centre 10.30-11.00 - Coffee and registration 11.00-12.00 Session 1:…
Professor Nicola Verdon Memorial Conference – Programme and Booking
Professor Nicola Verdon Memorial Conference – Programme and Booking
Following the untimely death of Professor Nicola Verdon at the end of 2024, the British Agricultural History Society is supporting a two-day memorial conference at Sheffield Hallam University to celebrate…
The Nicola Verdon Memorial Fund
The Nicola Verdon Memorial Fund
We are pleased to announce the establishment of The Nicola Verdon Memorial Fund for Early Career Researchers. This provides financial support to help early career researchers in agricultural and rural…
Thirsk Prize Book Discount
Thirsk Prize Book Discount
Publisher Boydell and Brewer is offering a fantastic 50% discount on John Bulaitis' book 'The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881- 1936'. This title, co-winner of the 2025 Thirsk…
Thirsk Prize 2025 – Winners Announced
Thirsk Prize 2025 – Winners Announced
The joint winners of the Thirsk Prize 2025 have been announced and are: Charmian Mansell, for Female Servants in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2024) which impressed the judges for…
Free Resource for Schools
Free Resource for Schools
'Telling Ethel's Story' A free drama resource for young people tells the story of campaigner Ethel Haythornthwaite. Created by Whitworks Adventures in Theatre (WAT) and dedicated to Professor Nicola Verdon,…
Spring Conference 2025
Spring Conference 2025
The next Spring Conference in will take place in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket on Thursday 24 and Friday 25 April 2025. Still time to sign up! View Conferences here
Remembering Professor Nicola Verdon
Remembering Professor Nicola Verdon
It is with great sadness that the British Agricultural History Society reports that our friend, colleague and President, Nicola Verdon, sadly died in a cycling accident in late December. While…
Agricultural History Review, Volume 72 Part 2
Agricultural History Review, Volume 72 Part 2
Part 2 of the 72nd Agricultural History Review is now available to subscribers online. Volume 69 is now open access.
Call for Papers: The Comparative History of the Grain Trade, 1500-1800
Call for Papers: The Comparative History of the Grain Trade, 1500-1800
The Politics of the English Grain Trade Project is hosting a two-day conference, 9-10 June 2025, at All Souls College, Oxford, on the comparative history of the grain trade. The…
Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize opens for 2024
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…
BAHS Spring Conference 2025 will be in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket, 24-25 April
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)…
Australia bans live sheep exports: A precedent from Agricultural History Review
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…
LIBRAL adds 15 volumes, spanning c.1800-1944
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…
Spike Gibbs and Steve Hindle win Thirsk Prize 2024
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…
Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize 2023
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.