Remembering Professor Nicola Verdon

Recent publications

For more, please see our dedicated list of books on agricultural and rural history.

29 Sep 2024 | Family Farmers, Land Reforms and Political Action: An Alternative Economic History of Interwar Europe, by James Simpson, is now available from Palgrave Studies in Economic History.

29 Aug 2024 | Gary Willis’s new blog post for the On History blog at the Institute for Historical Research, ‘The National vs. The Local, Amenity vs. Employment and Housing: The Case of the ‘Sunderland’ Seaplane Assembly Factory, Calgarth, Windermere, the Lake District’, examines an intense contest over land use in 1940s Britain.

29 Aug 2024 | A new article by José Luis Martínez-González, ‘Assessing agricultural adaptation to changing climatic conditions during the English agricultural revolution (1645–1740)’, has been published in Cliometrica and is open access. It particularly examines the role of nitrogen-fixing plants, improved cultivation techniques, and seed enhancements in response to climatic fluctuations between approximately 1645 and 1715, followed by a warmer phase until 1740.

BAHS publications