The Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize is now open for books published in 2024! 🏅 https://t.co/qxSDpPcGgA
The prize is offered yearly for the best book in British and Irish rural or agrarian history.
The @rmnvoice hosts two brilliant lectures this autumn—one featuring our own Deputy Chair, @DrSarahHolland!
10 October: Mental Health in Rural Communities > https://t.co/XuDqRDlr5a
7 November: Tackling the Climate Crisis with the Power of Rural Museums > https://t.co/Q8YfEj3rZ6
Welcoming the new, updated website for rural history diaries! A unique resource - 243 diaries of rural life, more than 1/3 written by women. The first began in 1789. More added every month.
https://t.co/AoWz0sJi37
Save the date! 📅
The 2025 BAHS Spring Conference will take place on 25 and 25 April in the beautiful @GuildhallBSE and @FoodMuseumUK.
https://t.co/gQZamCBx6o
If the Director of the BM thinks there are only about 15 objects affected by prospective repatriation claims or requests for return then I fear he’s in for a shock. Also, loans won’t right wrongs.
https://t.co/SxyQWGdBkN
@OllieDouglas@TheMERL • Paul Brassley on the reception of his co-authored book, The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-85.
Enjoy! 😊
The latest issue of Rural History Today is out! https://t.co/xNJROqXXQW Read on for:
• @OllieDouglas on the Model Farming Gallery @TheMERL
• Joan Dils on parish accounts as historical sources (1/3)
@OllieDouglas@TheMERL • João P.R. Joaquim on Redcliffe N. Salaman’s efforts to establish a nationwide system of virus-free seed potato production in inter-war Britain
• Andrew Gilson on agriculture in occupied Jersey during the Second World War (2/3)
🗓️ On 13 & 14 September, join the Islands Book Trust for a conference on the dramatic modern and medieval history of Balephuil, Tiree (Inner Hebrides). ‘In Search of Balephuil’s Hidden Past’ is in person and online:
https://t.co/nkAeR85dxA
Looking for early twentieth-century local histories of village agriculture?
This month’s additions to our online Library of Rural and Agricultural Literature include Arthur H. Savory’s ‘Grain and Chaff from an English Manor’ (1920)—and much more!
https://t.co/AnaRWA4P5y
Clare Hickman (@dr_hick), Maxwell Ayamba (@maxwell_ayamba), Debra Reid (@AgriHist), Gary Mills, Sarah Holland (@DrSarahHolland), Spike Gibbs (@GibbsSpike), and Isabel Hughes discuss teaching and rural history (1/5)
Appel à communications – Colloque “Agriculture et environnement en Europe de l’Antiquité à nos jours”
Date : 6-7 février 2025
Lieu : université Bordeaux-Montaigne
Date limite pour soumettre une proposition : 31 août 2024
https://t.co/6LPMeHgCQY
📣 Call for Papers 📣
Species on the Move: Historical Perspectives on Invasive Species
11–12 November 2024, University of Zurich, Switzerland
https://t.co/zPKbIV8wrj
@ConversationUK In a survey the authors conducted, a woman from Essex wrote, “I can see the faces of the animals peeping out of the trucks, and I do not fancy meat anymore”. A 2020 @YouGov poll put support for ending UK exports at 55% and opposition at 10% (https://t.co/RCv8mRvSWq). 🧵/end
In May, the federal Australian government announced its intention to ban live sheep exports by 2028. As Alan Renwick reports for @ConversationUK (https://t.co/wWvhzZs6Yk), Australia’s ban followed UK and New Zealand bans in 2023. The historical precedents are many and varied. 🧵
@ConversationUK Howkins and Merricks conclude that “a lot of the defence of the British trade mounted by the farming press, the NFU and MAFF was unsuccessful in winning the public's mind.”