Tag: agriculture

‘THIS DISAGREEABLE WEED’: ARABLE PLANT CONSERVATION MAY BENEFIT FROM HISTORICAL PUBLICATION INSIGHTS

June 11, 2025

In this blog, first published as Snapshot in Environment and History (May 2025), Kelly Hemmings explores how agricultural ‘improvement’ and agrochemicals have shaped and reshaped conceptualisations of arable plants (crops, wildflowers, weeds) in British fields since the 1750s. Introduction Arable plants, such as Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), are the wild species that grow on cultivated land, … More ‘THIS DISAGREEABLE WEED’: ARABLE PLANT CONSERVATION MAY BENEFIT FROM HISTORICAL PUBLICATION INSIGHTS

On Remembering Resilience: Climate Change, Agriculture, and Covid-19 in 1740 and 2021

October 21, 2024

In today’s blog, Emma Moesswilde takes her recently published article in Environment and History, Practising Cold Weather: English Agricultural Discourse and Memory, 1739–1800 (online first, September 2024) as a jumping off point to discuss memory and forgetting of extreme change, and the opportunity to become a more empathetic historian. Historians who scour the past to … More On Remembering Resilience: Climate Change, Agriculture, and Covid-19 in 1740 and 2021