Registration is now open for the Trollope Society’s 2026 conference, which will take place at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Trollope: The Law and Transgression

The conference theme is Trollope: The Law and Transgression, and the event will bring together readers, scholars and Society members to explore how legal and social boundaries are drawn, challenged and enforced in Trollope’s fiction.

The conference opens at 2pm on Friday 27th March and concludes at 2pm on Saturday 28th March, followed by an optional City Walk. We are delighted that Professor Dinah Birch will open the event. A leading authority on Victorian literature, she is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool and editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. Her latest book, Anthony Trollope: A Very Short Introduction, was published by Oxford University Press in 2025.

The delegate rate is £285. This includes:

• all talks and lectures, refreshments
• a three-course dinner on Friday evening
• overnight accommodation in Cripps Court
• continental breakfast on Saturday
• a two-course lunch on Saturday.

Following lunch on Saturday we hope that you will join an us for an optional walking tour of Cambridge.

Call for papers

We are currently inviting proposals for papers. Contributions are welcome from academics, students, independent scholars and general readers. Formats may include individual talks, paired papers, roundtable discussions, readings or other approaches. The deadline for proposals is 30th September 2025.

• Trollope Society Conference 2026 – Call for Papers