Conference: Early British Photography and its contemporary legacy

  • Event date: 12/09/2026
  • Venue: Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

Anyone familiar with Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution will know they have spent this year celebrating the invention of photography by way of their exhibition ‘Worlds Apart’, which places two collections of early photography (one set from 19th-century Bath and another set from 19th-century Shanghai) side by side . What this amazing display of … Continued

Book Launch: “Come what may, we’re here to stay: The story of South Asian resistance in Britain”

  • Event date: 16/09/2026
  • Venue: Waterstones, Gower St., London

London-based members of the Social History Society are invited to join an evening with Taj Ali, historian and journalist, to celebrate the launch of his new book, Come what may, we’re here to stay: The story of South Asian resistance in Britain. This book tells the inspirational story of how the South Asian community organised against racism … Continued

Call for Papers: Actors, Witnesses or Subjects? Children in Post-war Central and Eastern Europe, 1945–1989

  • Event date: 19/11/2026 – 20/11/2026
  • Venue: Warsaw
  • CFP Deadline: 18/09/2026

This conference invites scholars to reconsider the history of post-war Central and Eastern Europe through children’s experiences and perspectives. It will explore children not only as witnesses or subjects of political and social change, but also as historical actors who interpreted, negotiated and responded to the world around them. Keynote lectures will be delivered by … Continued