Date / time: 7 December, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
A one-day conference at the Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London
Saturday 7th December 2019
In celebration of the life and works of Alun Howkins (1947-2018), organised by the British Agricultural History Society
Speakers:
- Carl Griffin ‘Reading protest: our window on rural workers’ worlds in the 18th and 19th centuries’
- Vic Gammon “… anything which strikes a musician’s fancy”: Alun Howkins, song and history’
- Sarah Holland ‘Psychiatry and farming: labouring life on asylum and hospital farms, c. 1850-1950’
- Sue Bradley ‘Oral history: it’s place, significance and value in, to and for rural and agricultural history’
Plus a roundtable discussion led by Karen Sayer, Nicola Verdon and Clare Griffiths
More information and registration at https://www.bahs.org.uk/Winter_Conference.html