Agricultural History Review, Volume 50 Part 2 (2002), pp. 155–163

Joan Thirsk is the last surviving member of the founding Executive Committee of the British Agricultural History Society. In this paper, drawing on her own recollections as well as those of her contemporaries, she describes the circumstances of the foundation of the BAHS in 1953 at the suggestion of George Fussell. She then recalls the establishment of the Agrarian History of England and Wales in 1956 on the initiative of the first editor of this Review, H.P.R. Finberg, and its subsequent travails, concluding with the triumphant publication of volume VII in 2000. 

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