The Archives of Rural History in Bern, the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO), the Agricultural History Society in the USA and the European Rural History Film Association (ERHFA): visualhistory.info (Web)
Images are important sources for historical research. Today, they also play an increasingly important role in historiography because numerous photographic and film sources have been secured, collected, indexed, and made available to researchers in recent decades. Many of these sources have now been digitized and are available online. At the same time, ‚visual history‘ has established itself as an important field of historical research. The visuality of history as much as the historicity of the visual have become crucial subjects of historiographical research and history teaching. The Archives of Rural History in Bern publishes in cooperation with the European Rural History Organisation (EURHO), the Agricultural History Society in the USA and the European Rural History Film Association (ERHFA) the series Photo and Video Essays in Rural History (Web).
Researchers are invited to submit manuscripts for publication in this series. The length of a Photo Essay can range from 1’000 to 5’000 words. Manuscripts must include the photo(s) and biographical information on the author. Read more … (PDF)
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Grey Osterud: Rural Women’s Bodily Labor Photographed by Professionals and Amateurs
Photographs are among the most valuable sources we have to explore the social construction of gender through bodily labor in early twentieth century Europe. Read more … (Web)
Peter Moser and Andreas Wigger: What a life! Mina Hofstetter – an ecofeminist pioneer of organic farming
The female farmer Mina Hofstetter worked on the Stuhlen farm on Lake Greifensee near Zurich from 1915 until the 1950s. Hofstetter became famous because she adopted a vegan diet from the early 1920s … read more (Web) | Deutsche Version: Weiterlesen … (Web)
Peter Moser and Andreas Wigger: Working Animals: Hidden modernisers made visible
Working animals are often conceptualised as a phenomenon of the pre-industrial age. Historians often assume, that they became obsolete in the process of industrialisation. Read more … (Web) | Deutsche Verion: Weiterlesen … (Web)

Theresa Heyd, Miriam Neuhausen, and Vroni Zieglmeier (Anglistisches Seminar, Univ. Heidelberg)
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, SFB F92 Managing Maximilian (1493-1519)
Corinna Dziudzia (HAB Wolfenbüttel/JLU Gießen) und Markus Meumann (Forschungszentrum Gotha)
frida. Verein zur Förderung und Vernetzung frauenspezifischer Informations- und Dokumentationseinrichtungen in Österreich
Jessica Richter (Univ. Wien), Brigitte Semanek (Institut für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes) und Tina Plasil-Laschober (Technisches Museum Wien mit Österreichischer Mediathek)
Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung (AKHFG); Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Geschlechterforschung (IZG); Abteilung für Geschichtswissenschaft der Univ. Bielefeld
Arbeitsbereich spätmittelalterliche Geschichte und Vergleichende Landesgeschichte, Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz; Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz, Direktion Burgen Schlösser Altertümer