Karen Sayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 1151694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Sayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Sayer |
| SIGNATURE | SAYER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Trinity University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6493-5321 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nicola Verdon (1970–2024)
The British Agricultural History Society (BAHS) is deeply saddened to announce the sudden death in a cycling accident on December 29, 2024, of its president, Professor Nicola Verdon. Professor of modern British history at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Nicola was a leading researcher on rural history in Britain. She published extensively, but her most notable work includes Rural Women Workers in Ninet…
Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario . Jodey Nurse
Light 'Pollution': The Aesthetics of Modernity vs. Pastoral in Britain
The people were out late that night, and indeed, it was pleasant to be out.Not as yet were there any of those street lamps along the road which now make all nights alike dingy; but one felt as if walking into the unspoiled country.For though it was after ten, and the sky overcast, still one could see very clearly the glimmering road and the hedgerows in the soft midsummer twilight.-George Bourne/Sturt, Change in the Village, 1912 In Britain, desp…
The Changing Landscape of ‘Labour’: Work and Livestock in Post‐Second World War British Agriculture
When working with stock, great pleasure can be derived from the actual participation of both man and animal in what should be a collaborative exercise...Always working with stock calls for a deep understanding, a kind, firm attitude and a quick, intelligent reaction.1 The farm workforce...was far from being an undifferentiated mass of John Hodges. Although the national census of 1901 was the first to acknowledge the major divisions...even the div…
Alun Howkins, 1947–2018: Introduction
‘Modern’ forms of energy in the cottages and farms of Rural England, 1920–1960
The modernisation of farming became a key policy issue in Britain after the Second World War, and the (more) efficient use of energy was seen as key to that process because of labour shortages. Traditionally, farms had been organised to make the best use of energy around the farm, be that energy human, animal, or mechanical, or (latterly) derived from off-farm fuels. The apparent crisis in the availability of human labour therefore led to proposi…
Servants in rural Europe, 1400–1900
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American women in environmental historyNancy C. Unger
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers is an environmental history that focuses on women's history in America; that is, the role that women played in shaping the environment in America and their responses to
Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the victory garden movementCecilia Gowdy-Wygant
Notes1 S. Todd (2004) Poverty and Aspiration: young women's entry to employment in interwar England, Twentieth Century British History, 15(2), pp. 119–142; E. Vickers (2011) ‘The Forgotten Army of the Woods’: the Women's Timber Corps during the Second World War, Agricultural History Review, 59(1), pp. 101–112.2 Stephanie A. Carpenter (2003) On the Farm Front: the Women's Land Army in World War II (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press)
Animal Machines: The Public Response to Intensification in Great Britain, c. 1960-c. 1973
Though historians have begun to chart the development of intensive agriculture in twentieth-century Great Britain and to seek to understand postwar conceptualizations of the rural, they have paid less attention to the question of public attitudes to and perceptions of intensification. By focusing on the public debate surrounding the publication of Ruth Harrison’s Animal Machines (1964), this article seeks to better understand the impact of the bo…
Gardening Women: Their stories from 1600 to the present Catherine Horwood
Gardening Women: their stories from 1600 to the present CATHERINE HORWOOD London: Virago, 2010 Pp. 436. £17.99. ISBN 978 1 84408 463 0 The author, Catherine Horwood, was a joint Clare Evans Women's
At Day's Close: Night in Times Past . By A. Roger Ekirch
(2009). At Day's Close: Night in Times Past. By A. Roger Ekirch. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 116-118
Let Nature Be Your Teacher”: Tegetmeier's Distinctive Ornithological Studies
ONE OF THE GIVENS OF NATURAL history is that it is the observation of wild nature. However, that way of stating the case establishes a boundary between nature and culture, wild and domestic, whereas humans, as Douglas Sackman observes, have shaped what they call nature “into forms that [are] valuable to themselves or others” (171). This shaping of nature is particularly true of William Bernard Tegetmeier's (1816–1912) lavishly illustrated The Pou…
Working women and visual culture, britain 1880-1914
Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers
Researching Women's Lives From a Feminist Perspective
Field-faring women: The Resistance of Women Who Worked in the Fields of Nineteenth-Century England
In nineteenth-century England, women worked on farms at many different tasks. They frequently did laborious, repetitive work in the fields. In the 1860s this labour was defined as unfeminine by the middle class. The women who did it were described as unsexed and immoral. Working-class radicals took up and adopted this imagery in order to demand a male breadwinning wage when they fought their employers. However, the women also directly challenged …
Girls only? gender and popular children's fiction in britain, 1880-1910
Where no man has gone before, women and science fiction
Animal Machines: The Public Response to Intensification in Great Britain, c. 1960-c. 1973
Though historians have begun to chart the development of intensive agriculture in twentieth-century Great Britain and to seek to understand postwar conceptualizations of the rural, they have paid less attention to the question of public attitudes to and perceptions of intensification. By focusing on the public debate surrounding the publication of Ruth Harrison’s Animal Machines (1964), this article seeks to better understand the impact of the bo…
Where no man has gone before, women and science fiction
Field-faring women: The Resistance of Women Who Worked in the Fields of Nineteenth-Century England
In nineteenth-century England, women worked on farms at many different tasks. They frequently did laborious, repetitive work in the fields. In the 1860s this labour was defined as unfeminine by the middle class. The women who did it were described as unsexed and immoral. Working-class radicals took up and adopted this imagery in order to demand a male breadwinning wage when they fought their employers. However, the women also directly challenged …
Girls only? gender and popular children's fiction in britain, 1880-1910
Researching Women's Lives From a Feminist Perspective
Science Fiction, Critical Frontiers
Working women and visual culture, britain 1880-1914
Let Nature Be Your Teacher”: Tegetmeier's Distinctive Ornithological Studies
ONE OF THE GIVENS OF NATURAL history is that it is the observation of wild nature. However, that way of stating the case establishes a boundary between nature and culture, wild and domestic, whereas humans, as Douglas Sackman observes, have shaped what they call nature “into forms that [are] valuable to themselves or others” (171). This shaping of nature is particularly true of William Bernard Tegetmeier's (1816–1912) lavishly illustrated The Pou…
At Day's Close: Night in Times Past . By A. Roger Ekirch
(2009). At Day's Close: Night in Times Past. By A. Roger Ekirch. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 116-118
Animal Machines: The Public Response to Intensification in Great Britain, c. 1960-c. 1973
Though historians have begun to chart the development of intensive agriculture in twentieth-century Great Britain and to seek to understand postwar conceptualizations of the rural, they have paid less attention to the question of public attitudes to and perceptions of intensification. By focusing on the public debate surrounding the publication of Ruth Harrison’s Animal Machines (1964), this article seeks to better understand the impact of the bo…
Gardening Women: Their stories from 1600 to the present Catherine Horwood
Gardening Women: their stories from 1600 to the present CATHERINE HORWOOD London: Virago, 2010 Pp. 436. £17.99. ISBN 978 1 84408 463 0 The author, Catherine Horwood, was a joint Clare Evans Women's
Cultivating Victory: The Women's Land Army and the victory garden movementCecilia Gowdy-Wygant
Notes1 S. Todd (2004) Poverty and Aspiration: young women's entry to employment in interwar England, Twentieth Century British History, 15(2), pp. 119–142; E. Vickers (2011) ‘The Forgotten Army of the Woods’: the Women's Timber Corps during the Second World War, Agricultural History Review, 59(1), pp. 101–112.2 Stephanie A. Carpenter (2003) On the Farm Front: the Women's Land Army in World War II (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press)
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American women in environmental historyNancy C. Unger
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers is an environmental history that focuses on women's history in America; that is, the role that women played in shaping the environment in America and their responses to
‘Modern’ forms of energy in the cottages and farms of Rural England, 1920–1960
The modernisation of farming became a key policy issue in Britain after the Second World War, and the (more) efficient use of energy was seen as key to that process because of labour shortages. Traditionally, farms had been organised to make the best use of energy around the farm, be that energy human, animal, or mechanical, or (latterly) derived from off-farm fuels. The apparent crisis in the availability of human labour therefore led to proposi…
Servants in rural Europe, 1400–1900
The Changing Landscape of ‘Labour’: Work and Livestock in Post‐Second World War British Agriculture
When working with stock, great pleasure can be derived from the actual participation of both man and animal in what should be a collaborative exercise...Always working with stock calls for a deep understanding, a kind, firm attitude and a quick, intelligent reaction.1 The farm workforce...was far from being an undifferentiated mass of John Hodges. Although the national census of 1901 was the first to acknowledge the major divisions...even the div…
Alun Howkins, 1947–2018: Introduction
Light 'Pollution': The Aesthetics of Modernity vs. Pastoral in Britain
The people were out late that night, and indeed, it was pleasant to be out.Not as yet were there any of those street lamps along the road which now make all nights alike dingy; but one felt as if walking into the unspoiled country.For though it was after ten, and the sky overcast, still one could see very clearly the glimmering road and the hedgerows in the soft midsummer twilight.-George Bourne/Sturt, Change in the Village, 1912 In Britain, desp…
Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario . Jodey Nurse
Nicola Verdon (1970–2024)
The British Agricultural History Society (BAHS) is deeply saddened to announce the sudden death in a cycling accident on December 29, 2024, of its president, Professor Nicola Verdon. Professor of modern British history at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Nicola was a leading researcher on rural history in Britain. She published extensively, but her most notable work includes Rural Women Workers in Ninet…
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