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Announcement for the Next BEACH Convention

The 3rd British East Asian Conference of Historians will be held at the International Conference Center Hiroshima from September 11th to 13th 2026. The program (link) and abstracts (link) have now been finalised, so please check them via the links respectively. Please use the following Peatix link to check the details and complete your conference registration. https://peatix.com/event/5091815
This is a page for general participants only (registration deadline: 31 August 2026). Keynote speakers, the special lecturer, and presenters (invited guests) will receive a separate Google Form from the organising committee for registration.

2026-05-18

The latest issue of the academic journal is now available.

The East Asian Journal of British History , vol. 9 (2025) has been published. Please check it out via this link .

2025-03-19

The BEACH 2023 program is complete.

2023-07-04

The BEACH program is now complete. Registration is already open at the Institute of Historical Research (cf. https://www.history.ac.uk/events/british-east-asian-conference-of-historians-2023 ). (1) This year's conference will be held in a hybrid format, and the Zoom URL will be announced on this site at a later date. (2) For further details about the conference, please contact katsuta@lu-tokyo.ac.jp or ihr.events@sas.ac.uk directly.

The latest issue of the academic journal is now available.

The East Asian Journal of British History , vol. 8 (2021) has been published. Please check it out via this link .

2021-08-11

100th Anniversary Event of the Institute for Historical Studies, University of London

The Institute for Historical Studies (IHR) at the University of London will be holding its 100th anniversary event, the ' IHR Global Birthday Event '. Our chairman, Shigeru Akita (Osaka University), will be speaking at Session 1. Further details can be found at this link .

2021-07-08

Website redesign

2021-05-06

We have revamped our website. On the "Our History" page, you can view programs from past Japan-UK and Japan-Korea Historians Conferences.

On the Journal page, you can access back issues and the latest issue of the journal, The East Asian Journal of British History, in PDF format.