#BATW2025

4 March 2025 -

Click here to register for the conference!

We are excited about the over one hundred and fifty of you who will be joining us and are absolutely delighted with the range and quality of papers.

Our plenary speakers will be Head of the International Slavery Museum Michelle Charters and Independent Writer-Historian Christienna Fryar, and, as always, we will gather for our annual launch of the books published in our series with Palgrave Macmillan since we last met. All BATW editors will be at the conference, allowing everyone in attendance the opportunity to discuss book (and journal article) ideas and proposals.

Location

The conference hub – where publishers and sponsors will be based and where lunch and all-day refreshments will be served – is the Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) on the campus of Liverpool John Moores University. All panels and plenaries will be in the John Foster Building (98 Mount Pleasant, L3 5UA), which is only a few minutes’ walk from Liverpool Lime Street train station. Liverpool Lime Street is two hours direct from London Euston and an hour direct from Manchester Airport.

ETAs

For attendees traveling from outside the UK, please also be aware that an electronic travel authorization (ETA) is now required. The turn-around should be quick, but, in some cases, can take several weeks. We suggest that you plan ahead and apply early (ETAs are valid for two years or until your passport expires, whichever comes first; you must have a valid passport to apply). Further information about the ETA can be found here. 

Accommodation

We have reserved a very limited number of rooms at the Hope Street Hotel, which will also be the venue of the conference dinner and is about 2 minutes’ walk from the conference venue. 

To qualify for this group rate discount, you will need to contact Hope Street’s reservation team directly and provide them with the code: GA004561 by April 1st. Please let them know you are part of the Britain and the World Conference. Please either call or email, as the code will not work through their online booking system. 

Hope Street Hotel

40 Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9DA, United Kingdom

E: sleep@hopestreethotel.co.uk

T: +44 (0)151 709 3000

https://www.hopestreethotel.co.uk/

For individuals looking for other accommodations, our host has provided a list of potential options, all within walking distance of the conference venue:

• Philharmonic Hotel (just down from Hope St. to the conference venue)

• Premier Inn Lime Street (10-minute Up-hill walk to the venue)

• Blackburn Arms (Pub accommodations at 24 Catherine St. just around the corner from Hope Street Hotel) 

• Best Western Liverpool Inn (directly across from the venue)

• International Inn (Hostel with private room options near the conference venue)

Please note that none of these locations are associated with BATW, and availability is not guaranteed. We recommend that conference attendees book early. 

Registration

We always like to stress at this point that Britain and the World is a non-profit organisation, and all of our income is spent on society activities, of which the conference is the centrepiece.

The conference is a very social affair, with events on four consecutive evenings: the icebreaker on Tuesday, the welcome reception on Wednesday, the conference dinner on Thursday, and our outings in Liverpool on Friday. Only the dinner is chargeable, and we're subsidising the cost of that in the registration rate that includes dinner, as we'd like as many of you there as possible.

Registration fees are broken down into two types (with dinner and without) and two categories (standard and student). All registrations include coffee and tea throughout the day, pastry breakfast each morning, lunch each day, and a drink at the welcome reception. Please note that all prices are in US Dollars as we are a US-based organization. Current conversion rates are included for easy calculation:

• Registration, including Dinner (Standard) $305 (£240)

• Registration, including Dinner (Student) $240 (£190)

• Standalone Registration (Standard) $260 (£205)

• Standalone Registration (Student) $210 (£165)

• Standalone Dinner $75 (£60)

BATW membership is required for all conference attendance and includes a subscription to the society's EUP-published journal (two editions every year). You can become a member here. 

• Membership $62