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Triennial Conferences
Every three years the Society holds a major conference, with up to 150 participants, addressed by leading specialists in late medieval history. The first conference was held in 1981.
The last conference, held in March 2008 was held at The Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester and was entitled England's Greatest Mystery: The Princes in the Tower.
The 2012 Conference, Bosworth and Warfare – new finds, new ideas, will be held at Burleigh Court, Loughborough from 20-22 April. Click here for further information.
The format for the conferences is that they take place over a long weekend (Friday to Sunday) on a UK university campus. Delegates can be residential or non-residential and there is free time on the Saturday afternoon for delegates to explore any local places of interest. Details of previous conferences are available under the Education section of the website.
The conferences offer an exciting opportunity for delegates to meet each other and members of the academic community.
Study Weekends
The Society's first study weekend was held in York in 1991 to provide an opportunity for members to get together in a small and informal group to learn research techniques and study aspects of medieval history.
The weekends have continued ever since and take place in the intervening years between the triennial conferences. Details of previous weekends are available under the Education section of the website.
The 2011 Study Weekend was held at the Elmbank Hotel, York from Friday, 8 April until Sunday, 10 April. The theme of this year’s weekend was From Hull to Westminster: The Rise and Fall of the de la Poles. Details of the study weekend are included in the June 2011 Bulletin.
The speakers included:
David
Baldwin
Lesley Boatright
Helen Cox
Sean Cunningham
Heather Falvey
Peter Hammond
Rosemary Horrox
Lynda Pigeon
There will be no 2012 Study Weekend because of the Triennial Conference.