The Construction History Society is the society for all those who are enthusiastic about any aspect of the history of construction. Our members come from all walks of life. You might be someone who has an interesting story to tell, someone who collects items to do with buildings or any scholar who works on the history of buildings. We encourage people to take an interest in how the world around them has been built and those that built it.
The Society is devoted to the promotion and study of the history of construction. It aims to identify and protect sources of information and archives to do with construction history and to organise and sponsor events and publications that help achieve these aims. It has members from all over the world.
Read more about the benefits of membership and how to join here.
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The ninth annual conference of the Construction History Society will be held from 1-3 April 2022 in Queens’ College, Cambridge. The call for abstracts will be released on 23 October 2021. Deadline for submission is 19 November. Acceptance will be by 4 December. For those whose abstracts are accepted, full papers are required by 30 January 2022. Proceedings will be published at the conference. The theme this year is timber in building construction.
Eight Annual CHS Conference was held from Friday 27 to Saturday August 2021 in Queens’ College, Cambridge
The individual papers and the talks can all be downloaded and viewed here.
A printed version of the conference proceedings can be purchased here.
The Seventh Annual CHS Conference is still online. 53 papers were peer-reviewed and presented.
The general theme of the conference was Iron and Steel but there are papers on a wide range of subjects.
See the conference website here
All the papers and presentations are available online here
The proceedings are available to order online (price £40) here
All the papers and the talks for the Eighth Annual Conference on Construction History can be viewed here
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