A privilege to speak at Smarden Local History Society last week. Pride of place in the packed hall was a clock presented in 1886 to farmer, George Cooper, the ‘Smarden Martyr'. www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news...

Looking forward to speaking about the 'Tithe War' next week - Tuesday 30 in Ashford and Thursday 2 Oct in Cranbrook. More details at:
www.johnbulaitis.net/talks-on-the...

My book, The Tithe War, has won the British Agricultural History Association's Award for the best book on rural history in 2024. The publishers are offering a discount and plan to release a paperback early next year. More details at this link:
www.bahs.org.uk/thirsk-prize...

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!

I’m very proud to announce that my book, The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936 (Boydell & Brewer, 2024), has been announced joint winner of the Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize. The award is given to ‘the best book in British and Irish rural or agrarian history’.
www.bahs.org.uk/thirsk-prize...

And on VE day, the silence of political leaders - Keir Starmer, Ed Davey and Kemi Badenoch , the BBC and Dover's own poundshop Nigel Farage (Mike Tapp MP) - against this modern day ethnic cleansing - in one word genocide - is deafening. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Looking forward to speaking on Tuesday 15 April at St Margaret's History Society

All welcome!

www.stmargaretshistory.org.uk/events/event...

Keir Starmer must stop pandering to the hard-right on immigration.

Our statement 👇

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

This article from 2021 by a leading historian of fascism is just as relevant today. www.newsweek.com/robert-paxto...