The SSFH Annual Conference
In 2026, the 39th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of French History will take place at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. The conference will take place from Tuesday 30 June – Thursday 2 July 2026. Full details, including a call for papers, will be announced in due course.
The 40th Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of French History will take place in at Queen Mary, University of London, 2027. Full details will be announced in due course.
Past Annual Conferences:
38th Annual Conference at Campus Condorcet, Paris. Theme: Resistance [conference programme and details]
37th Annual Conference at the University of Manchester. Theme: Intimacies and the Self [conference programme and details]
36th Annual Conference at the University of Liverpool. Theme: Freedom and Emancipations [conference programme and details]
35th Annual Conference at Exeter College, University of Oxford.
Theme: Encounters
[conference programme and details]
34th Annual (Virtual) Conference at University of Westminster in collaboration with H-France.
Theme: Power, Protest and Resistance
[conference programme and details]
33rd Annual Conference at University of Leeds.
Theme: Legacies
[conference programme and details]
32nd Annual Conference at University of Warwick.
Theme: Political Economy and Cultures of Inequality
[conference programme and details]
31st Annual Conference at University of Strathclyde.
Theme: France, Europe, and the World
[conference programme and details]
30th Annual Conference at University of Chichester.
Theme: High and Low Culture
[conference programme and details]
29th Annual Conference at University of St Andrews.
Theme: Turning Points in French History
[conference programme and details]
28th Annual Conference at St John’s College, Durham, from 10-12 July 2014.
Theme: History and the Senses
[conference programme and details]
27th Annual Conference at Cardiff University, Sunday 30 June to Tuesday 2 July 2013.
Theme: Solidarities, Entanglements and Conflict in French History.
[conference programme]
26th Annual Conference at King’s Manor, University of York, 1-3 July 2012.
Theme: France and Its Neighbours: Towards a Transnational History
[conference programme] [watch video of plenary speakers]
25th Annual Conference at Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, 14-15 July 2011.
Theme: Celebrating France
[conference overview] [draft programme].
24th Annual Conference at Newcastle University on 27-29 June 2010.
[Programme] [Abstract]
23rd Annual Conference at Trinity College Dublin, 29-30 June 2009
[Programme] [Conference Website]
22nd Annual Conference at the University of Aberystwyth, 3-4 July 2008
[Programme] [Abstract]
21st Annual Conference at the University of St Andrews, 1-3 July 2007
[Programme] [Conference Website]
20th Annual Conference at the University of Sussex, 3-4 July 2006
[Programme] [Abstract]
19th Annual Conference at the University of Southampton, 4-5 July 2005
[Programme] [Abstract]
18th Annual Conference at the University of Warwick, 1-2 April 2004
[Programme] [Abstract]
17th Annual Conference at the University of Nottingham, 10-11 April 2003
[Programme] [Abstract]
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1st Annual Conference at the University of Liverpool, April 1987.
Theme: ‘The Growth of the French State’.
