The Fifteenth Century conference first took place in 1970, and with a few exceptions has taken place every year since. The conference is hosted by a different university each year. Some conferences have had a set theme, while others have been on the general theme of the fifteenth century. The following list shows the year and place of each conference, and the proceedings that have followed:
- 1970 Cardiff – Fifteenth Century England, ed. S.B. Chrimes, C.D. Ross and R.A. Griffiths (1972)
- 1973 Bristol
- 1976 Sheffield – The Crown and Local Communities in England and France, ed. J.R.L. Highfield and Robin Jeffs (1981)
- 1978 Bristol – Patronage, Pedigree and Power, ed. Charles Ross (1979)
- 1979 Swansea – Patronage, the Crown and the Provinces, ed. R.A. Griffiths (1981)
- 1982 York – The Church, Politics and Patronage, ed. R.B. Dobson (1984)
- 1983 Reading – Property and Politics, ed. A.J. Pollard (1984)
- 1984 Nottingham – Gentry and Lesser Nobility of Later Medieval Europe, ed. M.C.E. Jones (1986)
- 1985 Keele – People, Politics and the Community, ed. Joel Rosenthal and Colin Richmond (1987)
- 1986 Glasgow – Towns and Townspeople in the Fifteenth Century, ed. J.A.F. Thomson (1988)
- 1987 Winchester – Profit, Piety and the Professions, ed. M.A. Hicks (1990)
- 1988 Liverpool – Enterprise and Individuals in Fifteenth-Century England, ed. Jennifer Kermode (1991)
- 1989 Manchester – Trade, Devotion and Governance, ed. D.J. Clayton, R.G. Davies and Peter McNiven (1994)
- 1991 Royal Holloway – England and the Low Countries, ed. Caroline Barron and Nigel Saul (1995)
- 1992 Manchester College, Oxford – Crown, Government and People, ed. Rowena E. Archer (1995)
- 1993 Durham – The McFarlane Legacy, ed. R.H. Britnell and A.J. Pollard (1995)
- 1994 Chester – Courts, Counties and the Capital, ed. Diana E.S. Dunn (1996)
- 1996 Aberystwyth – The End of the Middle Ages?, ed. J.L. Watts (1998)
- 1997 Huddersfield – Social Attitudes and Political Structures, ed. Tim Thornton (2000)
- 1998 Reading – Concepts and Patterns of Service, ed. Anne Curry and Elizabeth Matthew (2000)
- 1999 Southampton – Revolution and Consumption, ed. Michael Hicks (2001)
- 2000 Queen Mary, London
- 2001 UWE Bristol – Authority and Subversion, ed. L. Clark (2003)
- 2002 New Hall, Cambridge – Political Culture, ed. L. Clark and C. Carpenter (2004)
- 2003 Keele – Of Mice and Men: Image, Belief and Regulation, ed. L. Clark (2005)
- 2004 Royal Holloway, London – Identity and Insurgency, ed. L. Clark (2006)
- 2005 Swansea
- 2006 Merton College, Oxford – Conflicts, Consequences and the Crown, ed. L. Clark (2007); Rule, Redemption and Representations, ed. L. Clark (2008)
- 2008 Aberystwyth
- 2009 St. Andrews – English and Continental Perspectives, ed. L. Clark (2010)
- 2010 Southampton – Concerns and Preoccupations, ed. L. Clark (2012)
- 2011 UEA – Society in an Age of Plague, ed. L. Clark and C. Rawcliffe (2013)
- 2012 Winchester – Exploring the Evidence: Commemoration, Administration and the Economy, ed. L. Clark (2014)
- 2013 Christ Church, Oxford
- 2014 Aberdeen
- 2015 University of Kent, Canterbury
- 2016 Royal Holloway – Writing, Records and Rhetoric, ed L. Clark (2017), includes papers from 2014-16.
- 2017 University of Essex, Colchester – Examining Identity, ed. L. Clark (2018)
- 2018 Reading – Finding Individuality, ed. L. Clark (2020)
- 2019 Exeter
- 2021 Bristol – Emnity and Amity, ed. L. Clark (2022), includes papers from 2019-21
- 2022 Pembroke College, Cambridge
- 2023 Winchester
- 2024 St. John’s College, Oxford
Richard III Society conferences:
1993 Durham – The North of England in the Age of Richard III, ed. A.J. Pollard (1996)
1995 U.S.A. – Estrangement, Enterprise and Education, ed. S.D. Michalove and A. Compton Reeves (1998)