Lancaster Historical Postgraduate Conference
Legacy and Lens
The Lancaster Historical Postgraduate Conference (LHPC) is a long-running annual academic conference for postgraduate researchers and early career researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences, whose work focuses on or intersects with history. Hosted by Lancaster University at its Bailrigg Campus since 1995, LHPC provides a friendly, welcoming, and supportive atmosphere for postgraduate and early career researchers to present high-quality work. Last year’s thirtieth anniversary conference saw researchers from fifty-six institutions spread across eight countries come together to share papers on a wide range of topics, disciplines, and time periods.
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LHPC 2026 will be exploring the theme ‘Legacy and Lens: The Past Shapes the Present’, and will continue the model set by previous LHPC’s in encouraging inter-disciplinary communication by welcoming papers from across the Humanities and Social Sciences. In today’s world, with the erosion of the norms that underpin global society, we must ask ourselves: how does the past provide guidance and a roadmap to explain not only what challenges are being presented but how also could they be overcome in the future? LHPC 2026 poses that question and aims to bring academics from across the humanities to answer it.
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This year’s conference will be held between 24 and 26 June 2026. We welcome abstracts for papers with a deadline of midnight on 28 April 2026. We also welcome panel submissions as long as they have a coherent theme that is aligned with the conference theme
LHPC 2026
Building on 30 Years of Excellence
The 31st LHPC conference promises to usher in a new decade of outstanding academic research and inter-disciplinary collaboration. Join us as we continue to build upon this legacy of excellence and get your research under the lens of your postgraduate colleagues. LHPC offers an unparalleled opportunity to showcase the very best of postgraduate research and network in an inclusive and accessible environment.
Our submissions form is now open:
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LHPC Transport Information
By bus
The Faraday Complex can be reached by bus via Lancaster Bus Station and the Common Garden Street Bus Hub.
South West Drive bus stop for lines:
4, 40, 41, 42 and 100
The Underpass for lines:
1, 1A, 2X, 4, 4X, 40, 41, 42, 100 and N1
Megabus M11
Lancaster Train Station
Lancaster is situated on the West Mainline featuring services by Avanti West Coast, Transpennine and Northern rail
Travel between the station and university
Bus lines 4 and 4X operate every 30 minutes between the Station (Platform 3 exit) to the University Underpass.
Taxis are also available at the station.
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By rail
By car
Leave the M6 motorway at Junction 33 and take the A6 north towards Lancaster.
After Galgate village, three junctions with traffic lights on the A6 serve the University.
For South West Campus (Alexandra Park) - turn right at the first traffic lights into Hazelrigg Lane and then left at the roundabout into Alexandra Park Drive. On weekdays during term time, between 9:30am and 12 noon, there are usually parking spaces available on South West Campus, but not elsewhere on campus.
For North and South Campus, outside these peak times - turn right at the second traffic lights into the University main drive. You can use the Car Parking Zones Map to identify the most convenient visitor car park for your destination.
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Parking
Visitor car parking is available on campus 24/7 and is free after 6pm and at weekends.
If you’re visiting campus during the day then parking charges apply. A ticket can be purchased from any of the pay and display machines across campus at a cost of £6.20 for all day. All payments are contactless by either chip & pin and contactless card payment, RingGo is also available.