RHN 86/2022 | Event
Organiser: British Agricultural History Society
10 December 2022, Birkbeck College, London, UK
BAHS Winter Conference 2022
The Environment
Saturday 10 December 2022
Room MAL 153, Birkbeck College, London, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HX [Note the change of location and the date!]
The British Agricultural History Society is delighted to be holding its first in-person Winter Conference since 2019.
Programme
10:00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
10:30 Kathleen Pribyl (University of East Anglia)
‘The impact of summer drought in pre-industrial England’
11:15 Elly Robson (University of Cambridge), Eugene Costello (Stockholm University), John Morgan (Bristol University), Others TBC
Round table: ‘Environmental and Agricultural History of the Early Modern Period’
12:45 LUNCH
13:45 Karen Sayer (Leeds Trinity University) and Paul Warde (University of Cambridge)
‘Environmentalism and Agriculture in the 1960s’
- a) ‘Sustaining ”the Land” within Agricultural Modernity’
- b) ‘Before the battle lines: pesticides and the response to Silent Spring’
15:00 TEA
15:30 Emelyn Rude (University of Cambridge)
‘Fisheries and the American fertilizer industry: the case of the 1879 menhaden collapse’
16:30 CONFERENCE ENDS
The cost of the conference is £35 with lunch, or £20 without.
Please register via the BAHS Website.
Source: https://www.bahs.org.uk/WinterConfProgramme.html