Highlights from the BAHS Spring Conference 2024
Huge thanks to everyone who organised, attended, and presented at our Spring Conference in April! Here are a few of our photo highlights.
![Six people sit at a conference table with one person on a screen via Zoom behind them.](https://www.bahs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_2897-1024x768.jpeg)
Clare Hickman, Maxwell Ayamba, Debra Reid, Gary Mills, Sarah Holland, Spike Gibbs, and Isabel Hughes discussed teaching and rural history. (The Museum of English Rural Life offers free learning resources.)
![A person stands in front of a presentation screen](https://www.bahs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_2906-1024x768.jpeg)
Clémence Gadenne-Rosfelder explained changes to pig farming and to farm buildings in mid-twentieth century Brittany using oral history.
![A person stands in front of a presentation screen that says 'Health, Disability and the English Countryside 1850-1950'](https://www.bahs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG_2907-1024x768.jpeg)
Sarah Holland showed how mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century discourses of health and disability operated in rural England (for more on this, see Sarah’s recent book chapter).
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Thomas Jen presented evidence about British wheat production in the aftermath of Mount Tambora’s eruption in 1815.
![A person stands in front of a presentation screen](https://www.bahs.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-07.26.22-1024x655.png)
For our invited keynote lecture this year, Steve Hindle presented a detailed early modern history of social reproduction in an industrialising village in Warwickshire, drawing on his new book with Oxford University Press.