Upcoming events and notices
11 August 2026, online: informal peer-review of early career researcher work (please get in touch if you’d like to submit works in progress for us to discuss). This is intended to be a friendly and constructive forum for development.
CfP BFE-RMA Research Students’ Conference 2027: deadline 4th September 2026. Speakers at the 2027 BFE-RMA Research Students’ Conference will be invited to submit their papers to the RMA/Musici Trust prize for a student paper on music before 1600. The winner will receive a £300 prize, be offered mentorship and also be invited to present their work at the RMA Annual Conference.
All members welcome. To register for these events or for more details, please contact secretary@plainsong.org.uk
Past events
9 June 2026, online: discussion with Elizabeth Eva Leach on her recent book, Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders (Cornell, 2024).
7 April 2026, online: informal peer-review of ECR work (please get in touch if you’d like to submit works in progress for us to discuss)
10 February 2026, online: discussion of Karin Largergren’s recent book, Birgittine Chantscapes: Chant and Liturgy in the Order of St Birgitta of Sweden, 14th–21st Century (Uppsala, 2025)
9 December 2025, online: discussion with Melanie Shaffer on her ‘Signs of Song in Medieval Iberia’ UKRI project
AGM 2025: Online, 8th October 2025
PMMS Reading Group: 7 October 2025: discussion with Margaret Bent on her recent book, The Motet in the Middle Ages (Oxford, 2023)
Study Day and AGM 2024: Peterborough, 25th May 2024
Study Day and AGM 2023: Oxford, 10th June 2023
Study Day and AGM 2022: Cambridge, 3rd December 2022
AGM 2021: Online, 4th December 2021
AGM 2019: Oxford, 5th December 2019
Study Day and AGM 2018: Oxford, 20th October 2018
Study Day: Oxford, 20th January 2018
Study Day and AGM 2017: Worcester Cathedral, 13th May 2017
Workshop: Palaeography of Old Hispanic Manuscripts: Music, Text and Beyond: Lisbon, 4th May 2017
The Ranworth Symposium: St Helen’s Church, Ranworth, 30th April 2016
Study Day and AGM 2016: Northumbria University, 9th April 2016
Study Day: John Rylands Library, Manchester: 13th November 2015