RHN 28/2019 | Event
British Agricultural History Society Spring Conference
8-10 April 2019, Jubilee Conference Centre, University of Nottingham, UK
Historical Perspectives on Rural Economies, Societies, Landscapes and Environment
Programme
Monday
12.30
Meeting of the Executive Committee (with buffet lunch)
15.30
Tea/coffee and registration
16.00
AGM
17.15 Session 1:
Dr Peter Larson, ‘Local society vs. economic change: A trajectory from north-eastern England, 1349-1700’
Dr Katie Bridger, ‘Environment, gentry agriculture and the inquisitions post mortem: a Leicestershire case study, c.1460-1560’
Dr Frances Richardson, ‘The transition from the Welsh “tribal system” of landholding to landed estates in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries’
18.45
Dinner
19.30 Session 2:
Dr John Broad: 2019 Presidential Lecture
Tuesday
8.00
Breakfast
9.00 New Researchers’ session A:
Junhao Cao (University of Utrecht), ‘Dutch Agricultural Transition in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Times: a regional investigation in comparative and long-term perspective’
Eloise Kane (University of Bristol), ‘Beyond the Pale: hare hunting and class tension in the post-medieval period’
Gary Willis (University of Bristol), ‘Fields into Factories: the impact on the agricultural landscape of Britain's expanded war industry, 1936-1945’
10.45
Coffee
11.00 New Researchers’ session B:
Iain Riddell (University of Leicester), ‘Grampian female farmers, role models, status and motivation, 1830-1910: A sub-regional network analysis of kinswomen’
Leonard Baker (University of Bristol), ‘Ecologies of Conflict: Landscape Change, Ritual and Protest in the Nineteenth Century English South West’
12.00 Session 3:
(Dr) Joshua Rhodes, ‘ Family farming in nineteenth-century England: new evidence and perspectives’
Dr Adrián Gustavo Zarrilli, ‘The nature put in check. The expansion of the agricultural frontier in Argentina and its socio-environmental impact (1980-2017)’
13.00
Lunch
14.00
Field trip to be announced.
19.00
Drinks Reception
19.30
Conference Dinner
Wednesday
8.15
Breakfast
9.15 Session 4:
Prof. Christopher Dyer, ‘Popular Perceptions of Agricultural Landscapes in the Middle Ages’
Dr Matthew Blake, ‘Living with Others: Sharing the Agricultural Landscape with “Wild” Animals in the Early Medieval Period’
Dr Susan Kilby, ‘New Perspectives on Peasant Perceptions of the Agrarian Landscape in the Later Middle Ages’
10.45
Coffee
11.00 Session 5:
Dr Kent Fedorowich, ‘The Canadian Forestry Corps in Britain during the First World War’
INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER Prof. Tim Soens
13.00
Lunch
14.00
Conference disperses
Please register at: http://www.bahs.org.uk/Spring_Conference_Booking.html
Source: http://www.bahs.org.uk/Spring_Conference_Programme.html