Past conferences
The Social History Society conference has been held since 1976, providing a space to come together and share the latest research and insights in social and cultural history. This page contains information on some of our most recent conferences.
5-7 July 2023
Keynote speaker: Miri Rubin
The Terms of Belonging in Late Medieval Cities
Plenary Panel: Social and Cultural Approaches to Movement, Migration and Borders with Margot Finn, Kat Hill, Aparajita Mukhopadhyay and Brodie Waddell
6-8 July 2022
Keynote speaker: Amanda Vickery
Making British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945-70
Plenary Panel: Education, Training, and Opportunity with Georgina Brewis, Peter D’Sena, Laura Gowing and Peter Mandler
10-12 June 2019
Keynote speaker: Olivette Otele
Transnational History and Cultural Memory
Plenary Panel: Access denied? Challenging barriers to historical research chaired by Pamela Cox
with Jessamy Carlson, Kennetta Perry and Mark Roodhouse
11-13 June 2018
Keynote speaker: Keith Wrightson
Counting Time in Early Modern England
Plenary Panel on History and Diversity chaired by Pamela Cox
with Miranda Kaufman, Sue Lemos, Meleisa Ono-George and Jonathan Saha
4-6 April 2017
UCL Institute of Education, London
Keynote speaker: Selina Todd
The Myths of Social Mobility
21-23 March 2016
Keynote speaker: Steve Hindle
Space, Economy and Community in Seventeenth-Century Rural England
Keynote roundtable on the future of social history chaired by Karen Hunt
with Kate Donington, Rohan McWilliam and Penny Summerfield
31 March – 2 April 2015
Keynote speaker: Jonathan Hyslop
Navigating Empire: Ports, Ships and Global History