Location
Royal Armouries Museum
The appropriation of material goods as the outcome of conflict has been a recurrent phenomenon throughout history and across the globe. This conference brings to bear a wide range of thematic, geographical and temporal perspectives on the topic, with two days of papers that range from the Sicilian War of Succession (1189–1208), early modern Croatia and North Africa, the Anglo-Sikh Wars, the Northwestern Great Plains, and the British army after D-Day. Through these case studies it seeks to understand the fundamental motivations behind plunder, and the way that its manifestation in different societies sheds light on historical, social, legal and cultural factors.
Tickets are £55 general admission (£22 for postgraduate and early career researchers) and cover lunch and refreshments on the two days of the conference. For a full list of papers, to book, and for details of the concessionary rate, go to https://royalarmouries.org/leeds/whats-on/royal-armouries-conference-2025
Bookings close on 22 April 2025.