RHN 105/2013 | Event
Organiser: British Agricultural History Society
7 December 2013, Senate House, Malet St, London WC1
Augmented Agriculture: Tools, fuel and traction in farming.
A conference in honour of Ted Collins.
Programme
- 10.30 Registration and coffee
- 10.45 Professor Richard Hoyle (University of Reading) , On Ted Collins
- 11.00 Jordan Claridge (University of East Anglia), The price of progress? Skill premiums and the trade of agricultural horses in medieval England
- 12.00 Dr Chris Evans (University of Glamorgan), The history of the plantation hoe and why it never got written
- 13.00 Lunch
- 14.00 Professor Tom Williamson (University of East Anglia), Fuel supply and agriculture in post-medieval England
- 15.00 Professor Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University), Electrification and the farm
- 16.00 Tea
- 16.30 Conference ends
The cost of the conference is £30 (with lunch) or £15 (without lunch). To attend, please fill in and send the form , together with a cheque payable to ‘BAHS’, to Dr Paul Warde, School of History, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, to arrive by Friday 29 November 2013.
Source: http://www.bahs.org.uk