Ridings of Yorkshire Society (ROYS) Conference 2025
6 June 2025 | Scarborough Library
Call for Papers, deadline – 1 April 2025
The annual Ridings of Yorkshire Society (ROYS) conference is back for 2025. We are a group dedicated to celebrating Yorkshire’s past, and its researchers, across a variety of disciplines. We would like to invite researchers to submit abstracts for papers to present at our annual conference.
This year, the conference will take place over one day, on Friday 6th June at Scarborough Library
ROYS invites researchers of any aspect of Yorkshire’s past and culture to submit paper proposals to speak at the Conference. We are seeking papers from a variety of disciplines such as: English, History, Archaeology, and the wider Arts and Humanities. If you’re unsure whether your topic is suitable, please do not hesitate to email us (it probably is!).
Paper presentations will be 20 minutes, with time for questions at the end of each panel.
Please send an abstract of no more than 300 words for your proposed paper to ridingsofyorkshire@gmail.com; alongside a short biography of yourself. If you’d like more information about the process or the conference in general, please get in touch.
Deadline for submission: 01 April 2025
If you have any concerns regarding specific accessibility needs please do not hesitate to contact us.
If you would like to discuss a contribution to the ROYS conference that doesn’t take the form of a paper presentation, please email ridingsofyorkshire@gmail.com to discuss this further.
Registrations for audience-only attendees will open shortly after the call for papers closes.
Find out more about ROYS at www.ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk