The conference included papers from Jane Rowling, Spike Gibbs, Mabel Winter, Steve Hindle, Thomas Jen, Clémence Gadenne-Rosfelder, and Sarah Holland, and a roundtable (pictured) on teaching rural history.
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Australia bans live sheep exports: A precedent from Agricultural History Review
In May, the federal Australian government announced its intention to ban live sheep exports by 2028. As Alan Renwick reported for The Conversation, Australia’s ban followed UK and New Zealand bans in 2023. The historical precedents are many and varied.
LIBRAL adds 15 volumes, spanning c.1800-1944
Elections have badly impeded LIBRAL over the past couple of months, but good to say the scanner’s assistant was happily re-elected. Here, before the second election of the year, is the LIBRAL circulation you should have had before the last election containing the usual mixture of the known and unknown.
Spike Gibbs and Steve Hindle win Thirsk Prize 2024
Like last year, two books stood out. Spike Gibbs’ Lordship, State Formation and Local Authority in late Medieval and Early Modern England (Cambridge University Press) is a book that the panel agreed will shape the historiography for many years to come. Steve Hindle’s The Social Topography of a Rural Community: Scenes from a Labouring Life (Oxford University Press) is a wonderful, illuminating microhistory of one early modern Warwickshire community.
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Agricultural History Review 72.1
Volume 72.1 contains articles by Nicola Verdon, David Arnold, Janne Mäkiranta, Zenyep Akçakaya, Peter J. Atkins, Pablo Delgado and Adrián Espinosa-Gracia, Per Lundin, Martin Karl Skoglund, Tiia Sahrakorpi, Alan Swinbank, and Elly Robson, Eugene Costello, and John Morgan.
Rural History Today, Issue 46 (January 2024)
Issue 46 carries articles on the diaries of Violet Dickinson; oral history and environmental land management; rural resistance to land dispossession in the Western Isles; and county magazines.
Rural History Today, Issue 45 (July 2023)
This issue features an article by Christopher Dyer on medieval peasants’ contributions to the countryside; Elizabeth Pimblett on women’s roles in the story of cider; Tony Pratt on the British cattle census of 1866; and Paul Warde on land valuation and surveying in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland.
| Title | Author(s) | Publisher | Publication date | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auf den Spuren der Arbeitstiere. Eine gemeinsame Geschichte vom ausgehenden 18. bis in die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts (On the trail of working animals. A shared history from the late 18th to the first half of the 20th century) | Hans-Ulrich Schiedt | Chronos | 2024 | German |
| Conference report: (De)Constructing Europe. Tensions of Europeanization | Christoph Ehlert | H-Soz-Kult | May 2024 | German |
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Spotlight
The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985
Paperbacks of the 2022 Thirsk Prize winner ‘The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985’, by Paul Brassley, Michael Winter, Matt Lobley, and David Harvey, are available now from Boydell & Brewer.
Land prices in Scottish uplands: A perspective from Agricultural History Review
On 20 April, Farmers Weekly’s Michael Priestley wrote that land prices in Scottish uplands are so far above average agricultural values that “forestry interests continue to outcompete livestock producers for land”. It’s happened before—in the late 18th and mid-19th centuries.
A personal perspective on rural racism by Maxwell Ayamba
Maxwell Ayamba is a journalist, academic, and founder and CEO of Sheffield Environmental Movement, which promotes access to nature for Black and minority ethnic communities. As well as speaking at the BAHS Spring Conference in April 2024, he recently wrote for Ramblers GB about racism in the countryside.