RHN 14/2018 | Event
Organiser: British Agricultural History Society
26-28 March 2018, Cannington Centre, near Bridgwater, Somerset, UK
Deadline for submissions for the New Researchers session: 5 March 2018
Programme:
Monday
13.30 Meeting of the Executive Committee (with buffet lunch)
15.30 Coffee and registration
16.00 AGM
17.15 Dr John Morgan (University of Manchester): Water Management in Britain in the Seventeenth Century
18.45 Dinner
19.45 Rob Wilson-North (Exmoor National Park): The Knight Family and the Reclamation of Exmoor Forest, 1820-1890
Tuesday
7.45 Breakfast
9.00 New Researchers session
10.45 Coffee
11.15 Prof. Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol): Economics of Grain Storage in England, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Century
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Field trip to Somerset Museum of Rural Life, Glastonbury
19.00 Drinks Reception
19.30 Conference Dinner
Wednesday
7.45 Breakfast
9.00 Prof. Jane Whittle (University of Exeter): Women’s Work in Early Modern England Project
9.45 Dr Mark Hailwood (University of Bristol): Women’s Work in Early Modern England Project
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Prof. Doug Hurt (Purdue University): The Green Revolution: Science, Politics, and Unintended Consequences
12.30 Lunch
2.00pm Conference disperses
If you are a new researcher and would like to present a 20-minute paper in the new researchers’ session, please send your abstract to Prof. Henry French, H.French@exeter.ac.uk, by 5 March 2018. Bursaries are available to enable postgraduates to attend (same email address and deadline).
Please register for the Spring Conference via the BAHS Website.
Source: BAHS