Annual Conference: the largest event in the BSHS calendar, the annual summer meeting welcomes contributors from all areas of the profession.

Postgraduate Conference: an equally important Society institution, the Postgraduate Conference takes place early in the calendar year and is organised entirely by, and for, postgraduate research students.

Other Meetings: details of more specialised conference events, plus joint meetings with other societies, including the four-yearly Three Societies Meeting.

Interested in organising a meeting?

If you have a suggestion for a possible future conference, symposium or public lecture which you think would benefit from BSHS support, we’d like to hear it. The BSHS may be involved at a variety of levels ranging from overall organization to financial or in-kind sponsorship. See BSHS Support for Events for further details.

Recent Meetings Organised or Supported by the BSHS

• 2024 Annual Conference, 08-10 July 2024, Aberystwyth
• 2023 Digital History of Science Festival, 03-06 July 2023, online (YouTube Playlist)
• 2022 Annual Conference, 20-23 July 2022, Belfast
• 2021 Annual Conference, 13-15 July 2021, online
• 2020 Global Digital History of Science Festival, 6-10 July 2020, online
• 2018 European Society for the History of Science, 14-17 September 2018, London
• 2018 Postgraduate Conference, 4 – 6 April 2018, Manchester
• 2017 Postgraduate Conference, 5-7 April 2017, Florence.
• 2017 Annual Conference. University of York, 6-9 July 2017.
• Science in Public. University of Kent, 13-15 July 2016.
• Three Societies Meeting. University of Alberta, 22-25 June 2016.
• 2016 Postgraduate Conference. 6-8 January 2016, Cambridge.
• 2015 Annual Conference. 2-5 July 2015, Swansea
• 2015 Postgraduate Conference. 7-9 January 2015, UCL
• 2014 Annual BSHS Conference. St Andrews, 3-6 July 2014.
• 2014 Postgraduate Conference. University of Leeds, 8-10 January 2014.
• 24th International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, July 2013, Manchester. See a photo gallery of images from the conference courtesy of BSHS Viewpoint editor Melanie Keene.
• ‘Making up Autism’ by Ian Hacking – Inaugural C. L. Oakley Lecture in Medicine and the Arts, 13 May 2013, University of Leeds
• 2013 Postgraduate Conference, 3-5 January 2013, University of Kent, Canterbury
• 2012 Three Societies Meeting, 11-14 July 2012, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• 2012 BSHS Postgraduate Conference, 4-6 January 2012, University of Warwick
• Electrifying the City: Spaces and Places for Electricity in Twentieth Century Britain, (BSHS-sponsored). 19 November 2011. University of Leicester
• 2011 BSHS Annual Conference, 14-17 July 2011, University of Exeter
• 2011 BSHS Postgraduate Conference, 4-6 January 2011, University of Manchester
• 2010 BSHS Annual Conference, 22-25 July 2010, University of Aberdeen