# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Remembering Professor Nicola Verdon: 2 day Conference
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 30 Apr, 2026 at 11:00 am – Fri, 01 May, 2026 at 04:45 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Two-day memorial conference to celebrate the pioneering work of Professor Nicola Verdon.About this EventNicola Verdon (1970-2024) was an acclaimed historian who made an outstanding contribution to the study of agricultural and rural history. Her research on the British countryside, and particularly on female agricultural workers, was internationally recognised.Following her untimely death at the end of 2024, the British Agricultural History Society is supporting a two-day memorial conference at Sheffield Hallam University to celebrate her pioneering work. It will be held on Thursday 30 April and Friday 1 May 2026.All Society members, friends of Nicola, researchers in areas in which Nicola was engaged and those who admired her work and regret her loss are invited to attend.PROGRAMMEThursday 30 April 202610.30	registration, coffee 11.00	introductionSession One, 11.15-12.45Jane Whittle, ‘Women’s wage labour in nineteenth-century agriculture: a long-term perspective’Joyce Burnette, ‘Agricultural Day Labourers: What Did They Do the Rest of the Year?’Paul Warde, ‘Tamlaght 1840: women’s work in an Irish community’LunchSession Two, 2.00-3.00Henry French, ‘Pioneers: Women and Farming on Exmoor, 1820-1900’Nadine Vivier, ‘The role of women in running farms (France, 1840-1914)’BreakSession three, 3.30-4.30Claire Griffiths, ‘A Landscape for Women: citizenship, work and rural modernity in the novels of Winifred Holtby’Andrew Walker, ‘The changing roles and representation of women on the agricultural showground: the case of Lincolnshire, 1867-1939’BreakSession four, 5.00-6.00Alison Twells, ‘A Dog Named Sheffield? Hannah Law’s letters from Tasmania, 1835-1841’Friday 1 May 2026Session five, 10.00-11.00 (by Zoom)Jennifer Jones, ‘“George has gone to Durham Ox to look for “Rodney”, the rascal”: Animal agency and the settler colonial project prior to fencing’.Emma Robertson and Jennifer Jones, ‘From Squatter’s Daughters to “Pioneering” Rice Farmers: Lois and Margaret Grant and the Australian Rice Industry, 1922-28’BreakSession six, 11.30-12.00: Flying the flag for Nicola. An open session of reminiscence and recollectionSession seven, 12.00-1.00Karen Sayer, ‘Who did the work? Looking for labourers after the 1947 Agriculture Act’Sian Edwards, ‘Constructing the Farmer’s Wife: Gender, Domesticity, and Representation in the British Farming Press, 1945-1960’ (by Zoom)LunchSession eight, 2.00-3.00Samantha A. Shave, ‘Outside the Workhouse: Rural Women Claiming Independence under the New Poor Law’Richard Hoyle/Catherine Glover, ‘Proprietary girl’s schools in late nineteenth-century rural England’Session nine, 3.00-4.00Katy Taylor, ‘From rural Ireland to suffrage and animal rights: Francis Power Cobbe (1822-1904)’4.00-4.30Closing remarks. Tea. Conference disperses.Please note that this will not be a residential meeting and those attending are invited to make their own arrangements for accommodation.
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- **city**: Sheffield City Centre
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Sheffield Hallam University
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- **full address**: Sheffield Hallam University, Howard Street, Sheffield City Centre, United Kingdom

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