About the LMS

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Lock-Keeper's Cottage

Since 1945, the London Medieval Society (LMS) has been committed to providing within London an invigorating forum for students and scholars from any discipline to present their own work and to share their ideas with fellow medievalists. Membership of the Society costs £20 p/a (£10 p/a concessions), and details of joining can be found on the Membership page. 

Members of the Society gain free entry to the three colloquia the LMS runs each year. The two colloquia the Society organises in the autumn and spring involve speakers from this country and beyond responding to a single theme, chosen at the Society’s AGM. The speakers at these colloquia often come from very different disciplinary backgrounds, and so they each produce interestingly unique responses to the themes under discussion. The third colloquia the LMS organises, in early summer, provides postgraduates from around the country the chance to present their work to a diverse audience of medievalists. All our colloquia are held at Queen Mary in the Lock-Keeper’s Cottage. As well as organising these three colloquia, the Society has also helped to organise sessions at the Leeds International Conference of Medievalists.

The LMS website aims to keep people informed of the Society’s activities. On the website you will find information about membership, details of forthcoming colloquia, and minutes from the Society’s AGM. As well as detailing current activities, the site also documents the activities of the society over the last two decades. The archives section contains lists recording the speakers at the LMS colloquia, the titles of their papers and, in some cases, abstracts from their papers. The website also provides a brief Links page highlighting upcoming events for medievalists in London and providing links to sites with further details about the work of some of the speakers at the LMS’s colloquia.

The LMS organisers are always interested in hearing from people with offers of papers or suggestions about themes for our upcoming colloquia.