British Agricultural History Society Conference – May 2026.

The BAHS Spring Conference and AGM will be held on Saturday, May 2, 2026 from 10:30AM to 4:15PM at Channing Hall, 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