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British Agricultural History Society
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Founded in 1952 for the study of agricultural and rural history.
Website www.bahs.org.uk
Instagram @braghistsoc
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Launching The Nicola Verdon Memorial Fund, in memory of acclaimed historian Professor Nicola Verdon (1970-2024). It offers financial support to help early career researchers in agricultural/rural history attend conferences and do research. Further details are here:
www.bahs.org.uk/the-nicola-v...
The Nicola Verdon Memorial Fund - British Agricultural History Society
Early Career Researchers
www.bahs.org.uk
Launching The Nicola Verdon Memorial Fund, in memory of acclaimed historian Professor Nicola Verdon (1970-2024). It offers financial support to help early career researchers in agricultural/rural history attend conferences and do research. Further details are here:
www.bahs.org.uk/the-nicola-v...
The Nicola Verdon Memorial Fund - British Agricultural History Society
Early Career Researchers
www.bahs.org.uk
October 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Announcing our New Researcher Article Prize. The prize will be offered for the best article by an early-career researcher published in the Agricultural History Review in the past two years.
Check out our website for further details.
July 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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July 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to John Bulaitis joint winner of this year's British Agricultural History Society Thirsk Prize for the Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History with his book, The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936! @braghs.bsky.social buff.ly/s4AUf6P
July 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The winners of the BAHS's Joan Thirsk Prize (2025) have been announced. They are:

Charmian Mansell, 'Female Servants in Early Modern England' @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

John Bulaitis, 'The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936' @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Congratulations to them both!
July 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The new edition of The Agricultural History Review is out now. Amongst its many and varied book reviews are these two, on women who sought to preserve the English countryside, written by our late friend, colleague and President, Professor Nicola Verdon.
June 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Thanks to all who came to our Spring Conference. Great speakers everything from heathland in Norfolk @uealandscape.bsky.social to the lime boom in 17th-century Scotland @estaitis.bsky.social, while @robertashton.bsky.social discussed his new book 'Ask the fellows who cut the hay'.
#visitsuffolk
April 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The BAHS' Spring Conference is open for bookings! It takes place on 24th and 25th April and is being held over two locations in #Suffolk - the historic Guildhall, Bury St Edmunds on Thursday 24th, and at the Food Museum, Stowmarket on Friday 25th. More details here: www.bahs.org.uk/bahs-spring-...
March 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
The latest issue of Rural History Today is now available to read online.
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March 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM