Society for Medieval Archaeology Conference 2026

Event details

We are delighted to announce that on 19 September 2026, the Society for Medieval Archaeology’s annual conference will take place in York, jointly hosted by the University of York’s Department of Archaeology and Centre for Medieval Studies. Our theme is Heritage Science.

The event will be based in the historic Grade I/II-listed Guildhall - once a centre of civic governance, now newly refurbished as a state-of-the-art events facility on the banks of the River Ouse. We hope that this will provide the perfect context for lively discussion of the ways in which breakthroughs in heritage science have impacted, and stand to impact upon, our understanding of the Middle Ages.

Heritage Science provides a timely focus given the recent creation of RICHeS (the UK’S Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science), with its aim to create a distributed infrastructure of collections and equipment, while we equally wish to highlight the accelerating impact of scientific approaches and data on medieval archaeology in a wider sense.

For further details and booking, see: https://medievalarchaeology.co.uk/events/conferences/