Agricultural History Review, Volume 72.2, is now online! 🌾 https://t.co/zVmDHs7gUd 🌾

The Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize is now open for books published in 2024! 🏅 https://t.co/qxSDpPcGgA The prize is offered yearly for the best book in British and Irish rural or agrarian history.

🔔 Reminder: the Call for Sessions for Rural History 2025 (Coimbra, Portugal - https://t.co/HYXFfWJoZi) closes tomorrow!

The @rmnvoice hosts two brilliant lectures this autumn—one featuring our own Deputy Chair, @DrSarahHolland! 10 October: Mental Health in Rural Communities > https://t.co/XuDqRDlr5a 7 November: Tackling the Climate Crisis with the Power of Rural Museums >

Welcoming the new, updated website for rural history diaries! A unique resource - 243 diaries of rural life, more than 1/3 written by women. The first began in 1789. More added every month. https://t.co/AoWz0sJi37

Save the date! 📅 The 2025 BAHS Spring Conference will take place on 25 and 25 April in the beautiful @GuildhallBSE and @FoodMuseumUK. https://t.co/gQZamCBx6o

If the Director of the BM thinks there are only about 15 objects affected by prospective repatriation claims or requests for return then I fear he’s in for a shock. Also, loans won’t right wrongs. https://t.co/SxyQWGdBkN

@OllieDouglas @TheMERL • Paul Brassley on the reception of his co-authored book, The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-85. Enjoy! 😊

@OllieDouglas @TheMERL • João P.R. Joaquim on Redcliffe N. Salaman’s efforts to establish a nationwide system of virus-free seed potato production in inter-war Britain • Andrew Gilson on agriculture in occupied Jersey during the Second World War (2/3)

The latest issue of Rural History Today is out! https://t.co/xNJROqXXQW Read on for: • @OllieDouglas on the Model Farming Gallery @TheMERL • Joan Dils on parish accounts as historical sources (1/3)

🗓️ On 13 & 14 September, join the Islands Book Trust for a conference on the dramatic modern and medieval history of Balephuil, Tiree (Inner Hebrides). ‘In Search of Balephuil’s Hidden Past’ is in person and online: https://t.co/nkAeR85dxA

Looking for early twentieth-century local histories of village agriculture? This month’s additions to our online Library of Rural and Agricultural Literature include Arthur H. Savory’s ‘Grain and Chaff from an English Manor’ (1920)—and much more! https://t.co/AnaRWA4P5y

.@maxwell_ayamba recently wrote a piece for @RamblersGB on racism in the countryside. Read it here:

Appel à communications – Colloque “Agriculture et environnement en Europe de l’Antiquité à nos jours” Date : 6-7 février 2025 Lieu : université Bordeaux-Montaigne Date limite pour soumettre une proposition : 31 août 2024 https://t.co/6LPMeHgCQY

📣 Call for Papers 📣 Species on the Move: Historical Perspectives on Invasive Species 11–12 November 2024, University of Zurich, Switzerland https://t.co/zPKbIV8wrj

@ConversationUK In a survey the authors conducted, a woman from Essex wrote, “I can see the faces of the animals peeping out of the trucks, and I do not fancy meat anymore”. A 2020 @YouGov poll put support for ending UK exports at 55% and opposition at 10% ( https://t.co/RCv8mRvSWq). 🧵/end

@ConversationUK Howkins and Merricks conclude that “a lot of the defence of the British trade mounted by the farming press, the NFU and MAFF was unsuccessful in winning the public's mind.”

@ConversationUK Thousands of protesters and police confronted each other over planned live animal exports at Shoreham Port in Sussex and at Brightlingsea in Essex in early 1995.

@ConversationUK Animal welfare activists targeted ferry companies and airlines, including British Airways, P&O, Stena, and Brittany Ferries, which all announced bans on live animal transport in 1994. The smaller companies and routes that grew to replace them also became targets.

@ConversationUK Howkins and Merricks describe urban dwellers’ views of the countryside by the mid-1990s as “a mixture of private game reserve and factory farm”.