Annual Conference
Attendees and presenters at the 2026 HOTCUS Annual Conference in Manchester
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The HOTCUS annual conference is the centrepiece of the organisation’s calendar. It traditionally takes place over three days in the summer, and plays host to a range of research presentations, state of the field round tables, and plenary lectures.
The 2027 HOTCUS annual conference will be held jointly with the British American Nineteenth Century Historians group (aka BrANCH) at the University of East Anglia from 7-9 July. More details will follow in due course.
Previous Conferences
2026: Manchester University, 1-3 July 2026 (Plenary Speaker: Beth Bailey)
2025: Lancaster University, 18-20 June 2025 (Plenary Speaker: Andrew Preston) – Programme
2024: Southampton University, 19-21 June 2024 (plenary speaker: Randall J. Stephens) – Programme
2023: Northumbria University, 21-23 June 2023 (plenary speaker: Bruce J. Schulman) – Programme
2022: Edinburgh University, 22-24 June 2022 (plenary speaker: Melani McAlister) – Programme
2021: Digital Conference, 7-10 June 2021 (plenary speaker: Connie Y Chiang) – Programme
2019: Liverpool John Moores University, 12-14 June 2019 (plenary speaker: Donna Murch) – Programme
2018: Madingley Conference Centre, Cambridge, 13-15 June 2018 (plenary speaker: Brooke Blower) – Programme
2017: University College Dublin, 16-18 June 2017 (plenary speaker: Penny Von Eschen) – Programme
2016: Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, 6-8 July 2016 (plenary speaker: Margot Canaday) – Programme
2015: University of East Anglia, 26-28 June 2015 (plenary speakers: Gary Gerstle and Andrew Hartman)
2014: University of Reading, 5-7 September 2014 (joint conference with BrANCH, HOTCUS plenary speaker: Sarah T. Phillips)
2013: Northumbria University, 5-7 July 2013 (plenary speaker: Wesley Hogan)
2012: Roosevelt Study Center, Middelburg, 20-22 June 2012 (plenary speaker: Charles Postel)
2011: University of Oxford, 7-9 July 2011 (plenary speaker: Jeremi Suri)
2010: University of Sussex, 1-3 July 2010 (plenary speaker: Nancy MacLean)
2009: University of Cambridge, 26-28 June 2009 (plenary speaker: Lisa McGirr)
2008: Institute for the Study of the Americas, University of London, 26-28 June 2008 (plenary speaker: Tony Badger)