BAHS Spring Conference 2022: Historical Perspectives on Rural Economies, Societies, Landscapes and Environment
RHN 21/2022 | Event
https://www.ruralhistory.eu/newsletter/2022/rhn-2022-021
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Organisers: British Agricultural History Society (BAHS)
4–6 April 2022, online conference
BAHS Spring Conference 2022
Historical Perspectives on Rural Economies, Societies, Landscapes and Environment
This conference programme replaces that planned to be held at Harper Adams University, which we have reluctantly cancelled because of ongoing Covid-19-related issues. All sessions will be held on Zoom. All sessions are free of charge, but you need to register for each of the three afternoons separately. You can step from one to the next using the buttons at the top and bottom of the registration pages (see BAHS website).
Monday 4 April
Opening Session
14:00 Catherine Rice (Dundee), ‘Kailyards in the east of Scotland’
14:30 Heather Holmes (Edinburgh), ‘Introduction of steam ploughs and the role of Scottish newspapers’
15:00 Break
15:20 Pippa Marland (Bristol), ‘The agricultural writings of EM Baraud – Land Army’
15:50 Damien McAlinden and Jeremy Burchardt (Reading), ‘The neglected history of fences, walls and hedges’
16:30 Presentation of the Thirsk Prize
17:00 AGM (Members only. The agenda and other papers will be made available on this web site)
Tuesday 5 April
New researchers
14:00 Sally Finn-Kelcey (Trinity College, Dublin), ‘Wool production for Export in Medieval Ireland’
14:30 Li Jiang (Exeter), ‘Shuttleworth accounts 1582-1621 agricultural labourers’
15:00 Linda Henderson (Exeter), ‘Technology of the Aylesbury Duck industry 1820-1920’
15:30 João Joaquim (Cambridge), ‘Potatoes, from managing degeneration to controlling virus diseases (1910s to 1930s)’
16:00 Break
International Session
16:30 Laura Tavolacci (Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile) , ‘India and Imperial networks of agricultural and horticultural science’
17:00 Dimitris Angelis (Autonomous University of Madrid), ‘Modernising the rural space? Agricultural co-operatives and land reclamation works in Spain and Greece in the early 20th century’
Wednesday 6 April
Panel: The Reclamation of Exmoor
14:00 Leonard Baker (Exeter), ‘Barren wastes; internal colonialism on Exmoor c.1815-1880’
14:30 Henry French (Exeter), ‘Tenant farmers and the reclamation of Exmoor 1840-1867’
15:00 Francis Rowney (Plymouth), ‘Transformed Moorland ecosystems: insights from paleoecological analysis’
15:30 Break
Book Review Panel: The Real Agricultural Revolution?, chaired by Richard Hoyle
16:00 Paul Brassley (Exeter), ‘The themes and argument for identifying the pre- and post-WW2 agricultural changes as being so significant as to constitute a “real” agricultural revolution’
Mark Riley and Karen Sayer, ‘Readers comments’
Followed by 30-40 mins of questions and comment
Please register at: https://www.bahs.org.uk/Spring_Conference_Programme.html