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Past and Present Conferences

The Past and Present Society organizes occasional conferences.

The following publications in the Past and Present Publications series arose from Past and Present conferences:

  • Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200–1800, edited by Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk and E. P. Thompson
  • Biology, Medicine and Society, 1840–1940, edited by Charles Webster
  • The Invention of Tradition, edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger
  • Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, edited by John Bossy
  • Epidemics and Ideas: Essays on the Historical Perception of Pestilence, edited by Terence Ranger and Paul Slack
  • The Moral World of the Law, edited by Peter Coss
  • Rethinking the Age of Reform: Britain, 1780–1850, edited by Arthur Burns and Joanna Innes
In 2002, the Past and Present Society collaborated with the Institute of Historical Research in organizing a conference to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the journal, on the theme of 'Re-Writing the Past'.