The onsite conference is now full. You can join the waiting list here
https://historicalnovelsocietyuk.regfox.com/hns-uk-2024
A downloadable PDF of the programme will be available shortly.
Book an online ticket:
HNS UK 2024 Online
The programme and booking for the HNS UK 2024 Online Conference for
7 and 8 September 2024 is here:
https://historicalnovelsocietyuk.regfox.com/online
HNS UK 2024 Pre-Conference Online Programme
The Pre-Conference Online Programme details and booking can be found here:
https://historicalnovelsocietyuk.regfox.com/hns-uk-2024-pre-conference-online-programme
Find out more about the Pre-Conference Programme. Book one or more Pre-Conference sessions to earn yourself a 15% discount on an online ticket for the September conference.
Speakers include Bernard Cornwell (pictured), Kate Quinn, Diana Gabaldon and Chris Humphreys, Elizabeth Chadwick, Ian Mortimer, Jane Johnson, S.G. Maclean and Lisa Highton, David Gilman, and Matthew Harffy. Find out more.
Parallel sessions cover Dartington’s Modernist history, historical fiction and Devon, co-writing, settings and costumes, screen queens, French history, Romans, Dickens on screen, adaptation, maps, audio books, dialogue, and more. Speakers include Anna Neima (pictured), Michael Jecks, Deborah Swift, Hazel Gaynor, Gill Paul, Alison Morton, Katherine Mezzacappa, MJ Porter, Helen Steadman and Christine Mackie, Gillian Bagwell, Elizabeth Fremantle, and more.
One to one sessions with agents and publishers will be on offer. Find out more.
There are place available on the Exeter Cathedral guided tour.
Powderham Castle and Greenway excursions are full. You can join the Greenway waiting list in case of cancellations.
You can also undertake your own self-organised excursions.
The gala dinner will take place in Dartington’s Great Hall.
Bookstall
The conference bookstall will be run by Dartington Trust Bookshop.
Rock, Paper, Swords! will be acting as a roving podcast at the conference.
Listen in for a preview here.
The Historical Novel Society UK 2024 conference 