Our annual conference is returning to Lancaster, for an in person event on 6-8 July 2022.
The Social History Society is open to anyone. Membership helps to support the field and members gain a range of benefits in return. Subscriptions start at just £15.
Lucy Bland has won the 2021 Social History Society Book Prize for 'Britain's Brown Babies: The stories of children born to black GIs and white women in the Second World War' (Manchester University Press, 2019).
The SHS has published its journal 'Cultural & Social History' since 2004 and in 2018 launched a new book series on 'New Directions in Social and Cultural History'.
Our Research Exchange blog features posts from authors of some of the best new books being published in social and cultural history.
Following our 2018 Conference plenary panel on 'History and Diversity' the Social History Society has set up a Network for BME Historians
Our role in representing social and cultural historians included our contribution to the government's consultation on the Research Excellence Framework.
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