This year, Prof. Mark Steven (Exeter) is delivering the RWS annual lecture. Join us on 27 May 2026 at the University of Westminster. More details and free tickets available here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/04/17/2...

Our annual postgraduate essay prize is back for a 12th year! The winner receives £250 and a year's subs to RWS, plus the opportunity to revise their essay for publication in Key Words. For details, see: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/02/23/r.... Please share widely with relevant postgrads! 🙏

🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨🚨Fancy contributing to a special issue on Cultural Materialism, Fascism and the Far Right, edited by @elinormtaylor.bsky.social? Look no further... Details, including the deadline, at the link: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2026/01/28/c...

Interested in guest editing a special issue of Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism? We've made it easier than ever to pitch us. Download our special issue proposal form here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/submission-g...

CfP: The British General Strike of 1926: New Directions of Research, 7-8 May 2026 @newcastleuni.bsky.social Deadline: 6 February 2026 More details: @sslh.bsky.social sslh.org.uk/2025/10/13/c... sslh.org.uk/wp-content/u... Kindly supported by @leverhulme.ac.uk #GeneralStrike1926 #GeneralStrike100

🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/c... Please share widely.

🚨🚨Call for contributors to next year's issue of Key Words, a special issue on 'Foreclosure,' guest edited by Chloe Ashbridge and Owain Burrell🚨🚨 Deadline for abstracts is July 18th, 2025. Read more here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/06/09/c... Please share widely.

Thank you to everyone who has started sending us their abstracts. We will start reviewing submissions after the deadline (10 July) and will be emailing decisions by 1 August 2025. Full details at comicsandai.org

Register for a two-day conference taking place at MMU on 19th-20th June 2025: www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/events/neith.... Co-organised by RWS Chair Dr David Wilkinson and other members of the Subcultures Network.

We are delighted to announce two winners of the 2025 Simon Dentith Memorial Prize, the Society’s postgraduate essay competition. First prize goes to Friederike Sachs. Second prize goes to Alexander Curtis. Read more about the winners here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/05/01/e...

In case you missed it Key Words 19, and Key Words 20, guest edited by @danieljhartley.bsky.social, are now both freely available online. All past issues are available here: raymondwilliams.co.uk/view-issues/

Delighted to see my paper on masculinities, structures of feeling and the British left in the latest edition of Keywords, published by @r-williams-soc.bsky.social. My thanks to editorial board for their supportive and collegiate comments during the publishing process

Just a few weeks left to submit your essay for our PG essay prize! Please share widely.

We're delighted to announce the return of the Raymond Williams Society postgraduate essay prize. The prize for the winning entry is £250 and a year's subscription to the Society. See full T&Cs and details of how to enter on our website: raymondwilliams.co.uk/2025/01/14/r....