The Fifteenth Century Conference
Thursday 4 – Saturday 6 September 2025 | Durham University
Call for Papers, deadline – 31 January 2025
Proposals are now invited for The Fifteenth Century Conference 2025. This annual meeting, last held at Durham in 1993, brings together established scholars and new researchers working on the history of the long fifteenth century in the British Isles, Ireland, or in the French territories of the English monarchy. We invite proposals for research papers on any subject relating to this field, and proposals on all kinds of history are welcome.
Papers should be 35 minutes in length. They should be based on original research and be suitable for working up for submission to The Fifteenth Century (The Fifteenth Century – Boydell and Brewer), an edited series closely associated with the Conference. Please note, however, that there is no obligation to publish and submissions to this series undergo a separate peer-review process.
Proposals from postgraduates at the later stages of doctoral work and from early-career researchers are particularly encouraged. All speakers will be expected to deliver their papers in person and to pay the standard registration and other fees. This cost-sharing helps to make the conference as affordable as possible for everyone. The Richard III Society is kindly offering two £275 bursaries for postgraduate speakers at the conference (15th Century Conference bursaries).
Please send proposals for papers to Christian Liddy (c.d.liddy@durham.ac.uk) by 31 January 2025. Proposals should include a title and an abstract of the paper totalling no more than 300 words. Along with the abstract, please also provide a short biography (max. of 250 words), which should include any institutional affiliations and, in the case of postgraduate students, the name of your PhD supervisor.
All proposals will be reviewed by The Fifteenth Century Conference advisory board and decisions communicated in March 2025.