RHN 32/2024 | Event
Organisers: British Agricultural History Society
12–13 April 2024, Jubilee Conference Centre, Triumph Road, Nottingham, England, UK
British Agricultural History Society Spring Conference 2024
Historical Perspectives on Rural Economies, Societies, Landscapes and Environment
Day 1 – Fri 12th April
10.30-11.00 – Arrival and coffee
11.00-12.00 – Session 1
Jane Rowling (Calder and Colne Rivers Trust)
The Impacts of Agricultural History on the ‘Agricultural Transition’ 2021-2027 in the South Pennines
12.00-13.00 – Session 2 – Milling and Consuming Grain in Pre-industrial England
Spike Gibbs (University of Mannheim)
Nutrition and Consumer Grain Preferences in Late Medieval England
Mabel Winter (University of Sheffield)
The Politics of Grain Milling: the milling industry in England, 1315-1815
13.00-14.00 – Lunch
14.00-15.30 – Session 3: Round table
Teaching Histories of the Countryside - perspectives from museums, community ventures, schools and higher education
Clare Hickman (Newcastle University)
Maxwell Ayamba (University of Nottingham)
Debra Reid (The Henry Ford)
Gary Mills (University of Nottingham)
15.30-16.00 – Coffee
16.30-18.00 – Annual General Meeting
19.00-23.00 – Prize Presentation/Conference Dinner
Day 2 – Sat 13th April
07.00-09.00 – Breakfast
09.30-10.30 – Session 4: Invited keynote
Steve Hindle (Washington University in St Louis)
Social Reproduction in an Industrializing Village, c.1680-1780
10.30-11.00 – Coffee
11.00-13.00 – Session 5: Production, Intensification and Experimentation in Farming
Yu-Chien Jen (University Carlos III Madrid)
A Study of Agricultural Production in the United Kingdom: The Longterm Influence of the Eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815
James Akpu (Dublin City University)
The British Colonial Administration and the Potato Scheme on the Mambila and Jos Plateaus in Northern Nigeria, 1923-1945
Clémence Gadenne-Rosfelder (L’ École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
DIY to Intensify. An Oral History of Pig Farm Buildings in Brittany (France, 1950s-1980s)
13.00-14.00 – Lunch
14.00-15.00 – Session 6: Living and Working in the Countryside
Brian Casey (Durham University)
Adaptation, struggle, survival and decline on the Greenfort estate, county Donegal, 1850-1885
Sarah Holland (University of Nottingham)
Health, Disability and the English Countryside, 1850-1950
15.00-15.30 – Coffee and departure
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