Making Constitutions, Building Parliaments' conference 2015: Registration open and preliminary programme announced

The annual conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions, King’s College, London, Royal Holloway, London, and Portcullis House, Palace of Westminster
London 30th June – 3rd July 2015

Sponsored by The History of Parliament Trust, with support from the UK Parliament, The Magna Carta Trust’s 800th Anniversary Commemoration Committee, King’s College London and Royal Holloway, University of London.

Conference registration is now open and preliminary programme announced for the History of Parliament/ICHRPI conference: 'Making Constitutions, Building Parliaments'.

The conference marks two anniversaries of enormous significance in the history of English, and British constitutional and legal history: the 800th anniversary of King John’s acceptance of Magna Carta, the great charter of liberties of the English nation in 1215; and the 750th anniversary of the Parliament summoned by Simon de Montfort in 1265, following his defeat of King Henry III in a civil war which was the culmination of a baronial revolt.

Full details on how to register are available here. Registration is open from now and closes on Monday 22 June 2015.

You may pay for the conference via credit or debit card on via our Eventbrite page. Please note that we will not be able to register you for the conference until we have received payment, so if you cannot pay by credit or debit card and wish to pay by bank transfer, please contact the conference organisers before registering. Unfortunately we cannot accept payment during the conference itself.

A preliminary conference schedule is now also available on the conference website. Please note that this schedule is preliminary and likely to change before the conference begins.

For more information, see the conference’s website or contact us.

For more on the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions see their website.