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.
Next Event
Friday 7 February 2020 at 6.00 pm
Dr Andrew Arsan
‘Arab political thought and the problem of empire, c.1856-1919‘
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
UCL
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.
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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.
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| Date/Time | Event | |
|---|---|---|
 | 18 September - 18 March 2:30 pm | Subjects and Objects of Government: women from the 19th to the 21st century |
 | 18 September - 10 June 6:00 pm | Theatres of Revolution: the Stuart Kings and the architecture of disruption |
 | 27 September - 15 May 5:15 pm | Low Countries history seminars, 2019/20 |
 | 24 October - 23 April 7:30 pm | Historical Association Bath Branch Lectures 2019-20 |
 | 6 November - 1 June 5:15 pm | Early Modern European History Programme, 2019-20 |
 | 21 January - 28 April 5:30 pm | German Historical Institute Spring 2020 Seminars |
 | 23 January - 24 January All day | Writing Ancient History in the Interwar Period (1918-1939) |
 | 23 January - 2 July 6:00 pm | Black British History Seminar |
 | 24 January - 28 February 5:00 pm | James Ford Lectures in British History 2020 |
 | 25 January 10:00 am - 4:30 pm | Material culture and the Pre-Modern Town |