The Royal Historical Society runs a varied programme of events throughout the year, including our own prestigious lectures, and twice-yearly symposia hosted by history departments around Britain.
The full programme for 2020 is available here. Please keep checking for updates as we move some of our events online.
Next Event
Professor Derek R. Peterson (University of Michigan)
“The Unseen Archive of Idi Amin: Making History in a Tight Corner”
A Virtual Lecture
23 July 2020 at 17.30 BST
Event Podcast and Video Archive
The media archive enables you to access podcasts and videos of our lectures and other Society events.
External Events
We also host listings for a wide range of external events and activities on behalf of the historical community including conferences, symposia, seminars, and lectures, as well as Calls for Papers, and Prize deadlines. Submit your notice using the link below or use the page menu to search and browse the wide range of upcoming events and other notices of interest to historians.
Members and Fellows receive a weekly email digest informing them of new opportunities.
Please note: listing on this noticeboard is not an indication of the Royal Historical Society’s support for an event, and we remind organisers of the recommendations in our 2018 reports on Race, Ethnicity and Equality and Gender Equality: events in the discipline should be diverse and inclusive.
Would you like to promote your history event or activity on the Royal Historical Society noticeboard? If so please complete our listing form below.
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10 June - 16 September 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm |
Modern British History Workshop |
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1 July - 15 July All day |
German Historical Institute Summer Seminar Series Podcast: Feminist Histories |
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10 July 10:00 am - 5:30 pm |
The Field of Cloth of Gold Conference |
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13 July - 17 July 10:00 am - 5:00 pm |
History Now: Institute of Historical Research Summer School, 2020 |
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3 September - 5 September All day |
Fifteenth Century Conference 2020 - deadline 31 May 2020 |
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5 September - 6 September 9:00 am - 1:00 pm |
The Sky in Legend and Tradition - deadline 1 July 2020 |
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10 September - 12 September All day |
Maritime Technologies, Human Worlds - deadline 30 May 2020 |
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15 September - 17 September 9:00 am - 5:00 pm |
Business as Unusual. Histories of Rupture, Chaos, Revolution and Change - deadline 10 July 2020 |
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25 September 9:00 am - 6:00 pm |
Building Welfare States: New Approaches to Architecture, Community & Planning in Twentieth Century Britain - deadline 1 June 2020 |
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24 October 11:00 am - 4:00 pm |
The Anglo-Sikh Wars |