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The British Agricultural History Society promotes the study of the social, environmental, and economic history of the countryside and landscapes

Joined January 2014
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Agricultural History Review, Volume 72.2, is now online! 🌾 bahs.org.uk/AGHR/articles.ht… 🌾
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The Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize is now open for books published in 2024! 🏅 bahs.org.uk/joan-thirsk-memo… The prize is offered yearly for the best book in British and Irish rural or agrarian history.

Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize opens for 2024 - British Agricultural History Society

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...

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🔔 Reminder: the Call for Sessions for Rural History 2025 (Coimbra, Portugal - ruralhistory2025.org/call-fo…) closes tomorrow!
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The @rmnvoice hosts two brilliant lectures this autumn—one featuring our own Deputy Chair, @DrSarahHolland! 10 October: Mental Health in Rural Communities > eventbrite.co.uk/e/mental-he… 7 November: Tackling the Climate Crisis with the Power of Rural Museums > eventbrite.co.uk/e/tackling-…

Mental Health in Rural Communities

This seminar is an opportunity to talk about mental health issues in rural communities and mobilize efforts in the support of mental health.

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Kris Inwood (@kris-inwood.bsky.social)@kris_inwood
9 Sep 2024
Welcoming the new, updated website for rural history diaries! A unique resource - 243 diaries of rural life, more than 1/3 written by women. The first began in 1789. More added every month. ruraldiaries.uoguelph.ca
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Save the date! 📅 The 2025 BAHS Spring Conference will take place on 25 and 25 April in the beautiful @GuildhallBSE and @FoodMuseumUK. bahs.org.uk/bahs-spring-conf…
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Dr Ollie Douglas@OllieDouglas
18 Jul 2024
If the Director of the BM thinks there are only about 15 objects affected by prospective repatriation claims or requests for return then I fear he’s in for a shock. Also, loans won’t right wrongs. museumsassociation.org/museu…

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The latest issue of Rural History Today is out! bahs.org.uk/rural-history-to… Read on for: • @OllieDouglas on the Model Farming Gallery @TheMERL • Joan Dils on parish accounts as historical sources (1/3)

Rural History Today, Issue 47 (Summer 2024) - British Agricultural History Society

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...

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• 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 occupied Jersey during the Second World War (2/3)
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• Paul Brassley on the reception of his co-authored book, The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-85. Enjoy! 😊
The front page of Rural History Today, Issue 47

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🗓️ On 13 & 14 September, join the Islands Book Trust for a conference on the dramatic modern and medieval history of Balephuil, Tiree (Inner Hebrides). ‘In Search of Balephuil’s Hidden Past’ is in person and online: cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/12…
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Looking for early twentieth-century local histories of village agriculture? This month’s additions to our online Library of Rural and Agricultural Literature include Arthur H. Savory’s ‘Grain and Chaff from an English Manor’ (1920)—and much more! bahs.org.uk/libral-adds-15-v…

LIBRAL adds 15 volumes, spanning c.1800-1944 - British Agricultural History Society

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...

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.@maxwell_ayamba recently wrote a piece for @RamblersGB on racism in the countryside. Read it here: ramblers.org.uk/feature/pers…

A personal perspective on rural racism by Maxwell Ayamba

Maxwell Ayamba shares their experience and views relating to rural racism to help broaden our understanding of this complex issue.

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Clare Hickman (@dr_hick), Maxwell Ayamba (@maxwell_ayamba), Debra Reid (@AgriHist), Gary Mills, Sarah Holland (@DrSarahHolland), Spike Gibbs (@GibbsSpike), and Isabel Hughes discuss teaching and rural history (1/5)
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27 May 2024
Appel à communications – Colloque “Agriculture et environnement en Europe de l’Antiquité à nos jours” Date : 6-7 février 2025 Lieu : université Bordeaux-Montaigne Date limite pour soumettre une proposition : 31 août 2024 ajch.hypotheses.org/6263

Appel à communications – Colloque “Agriculture et environnement en Europe de l’Antiquité à nos...

Date : 6-7 février 2025 Lieu : université Bordeaux-Montaigne Date limite pour soumettre une proposition : 31 août 2024 Objectif scientifique :             L’histoire rurale et l’histoire environnem...

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📣 Call for Papers 📣 Species on the Move: Historical Perspectives on Invasive Species 11–12 November 2024, University of Zurich, Switzerland infoclio.ch/de/cfp-…

CfP: Species on the Move. Historical Perspectives on Invasive Species

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In May, the federal Australian government announced its intention to ban live sheep exports by 2028. As Alan Renwick reports for @ConversationUK (theconversation.com/australi…), Australia’s ban followed UK and New Zealand bans in 2023. The historical precedents are many and varied. 🧵

Australia is set to ban live sheep exports. What will this mean for the industry?

Is the ban really a death knell for the Western Australian sheep industry, as is sometimes argued? Or just an inevitable step in a necessary transition?

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Howkins and Merricks conclude that “a lot of the defence of the British trade mounted by the farming press, the NFU and MAFF was unsuccessful in winning the public's mind.”
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In a survey the authors conducted, a woman from Essex wrote, “I can see the faces of the animals peeping out of the trucks, and I do not fancy meat anymore”. A 2020 @YouGov poll put support for ending UK exports at 55% and opposition at 10% (d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.ne…). 🧵/end
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