| AdminHistory | The British Psychological Society held regular 'general' meetings from its earliest days when members and invited guests would read papers some of which were then published. They were called general meetings to differentiate them from Section (as the Society's specialist groups were called which were created 1919-1920). Lists of meeting titles and abstracts were published in the British Journal of Psychology and other Society publications.
By the end of its first year, December, 1902, the Society had held six meetings, four at University College, London, one at Cambridge and one at Oxford. Two or three papers were read with an interval for tea and afterwards a dinner was held. In 1910 the British Psychological Society joined the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association for a week-end of meetings. Two weekend meetings were held with the Royal Society of Medicine in 1914 - the second meeting was held at Durham University [see photographs PHO/001/03/08/05]).
In 1931 a general meeting was held outside London at the University of Reading and in 1933 a visit was made to Bethlem Royal Hospital. In 1936 a new venture of extended general meetings held was initiated, they were held from Friday until Monday at regional venues - the first was in Leeds 17-20 April. AGM was originally held in January and then December but by 1941 were part of the extended meeting which was called the Annual General Conference until 1995 and then the Annual Conference but it still included the AGM. [An annual London Conference was started in 1958 and ran until 2001]. In response to falling numbers it was decided to have no annual conference in 2020 and then relaunch as a joint Member Network (previously known as Subsystem] annual event. Member Networks previously held and organised their own separate annual conferences.
The Annual Conference was organised by the Standing Conference Committee.
1936 Leeds 1983 York
1937 Manchester 1984 Warwick
1938 St Andrews 1985 Swansea
1939 Reading 1986 Sheffield
1940 Birmingham (Louvain was cancelled) 1987 Sussex
1941 Nottingham 1988 Leeds
1942 Brighton 1989 St. Andrews
1943 Oxford 1990 Swansea
1944 Glasgow 1991 Bournemouth
1945 Exeter 1992 Scarborough
1946 Durham 1993 Blackpool
1947 Dartford Heath 1994 Brighton
1948 Birmingham 1995 Warwick
1949 Bristol 1996 Brighton
1950 Reading 1997 Edinburgh
1955 Durham 1998 Brighton
1951 Liverpool 1999 Belfast
1952 Oxford 2000 Winchester
1953 Nottingham 2001 Glasgow
1954 Nottingham 2002 Blackpool
1956 Manchester 2003 Bournemouth
1957 St. Andrews 2004 London
1958 Birmingham 2005 Manchester
1959 Cambridge 2006 Cardiff
1960 Hull 2007 York
1961 Liverpool 2008 Dublin
1962 Bristol 2009 Brighton
1963 Reading 2010 Stratford-upon-Avon
1964 Leicester 2011 Glasgow
1965 Aberdeen 2012 London
1966 Swansea 2013 Harrogate
1967 Belfast 2014 Birmingham
1968 Sheffield 2015 Liverpool
1969 Edinburgh 2016 Nottingham
1970 Southampton 2017 Brighton
1971 Exeter 2018 Nottingham
1972 Nottingham 2019 Harrogate
1973 Liverpool 2020 Virual
1974 Bangor 2021 Virtual
1975 Nottingham
1976 York
1977 Exeter
1978 York
1979 Nottingham
1980 Aberdeen
1981 Surrey (Univ. of)
1982 York
During the 1990 Annual Conference in Swansea the BBC recorded an edition of 'Any Questions' |
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