BAHS Spring Conference 2026

One day conference including society AGM

The Spring conference of the British Agricultural History will take place on 2nd May at Channing Hall in Sheffield.

Programme:

10.30-11.00 – coffee and registration

11.00-12.00 – Session 1: Thirsk prize winner 2025

• John Bulaitis – ‘The ‘Tithe War’ of 1881-1936 in historical perspective’

12.00-13.00 – Session 2

• Claudia Soares – ‘The Great Lone Land: Emotions, Environment and Child Migration, c.1870-1920’

13.00 – Lunch

13.30 – AGM (for society members)

14.15-16.15 – Session 3: Ecological and environment approaches to the rural past and present

• Ian Rotherham – ‘Apart from Nature or a part of Nature: The implications of Cultural Severance, the Eco-cultural Commons, and studies from northern England’
• Fred Bricknell – ‘Living with water shocks: Vernacular water knowledges and community action in early modern England’

16.30 – Depart