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Hotel room block details for the EBHS 2026 conference

Posted on: April 7th, 2026 by EBHS

DoubleTree by Hilton McLean Tysons

Dear Attendees,

We are pleased to share the hotel room block details for the upcoming EBHS conference at the DoubleTree by Hilton McLean Tysons.

The address of the hotel is:

DoubleTree by Hilton McLean Tysons
1960 Chain Bridge Road
McLean, Virginia 22102 USA

To make your reservation with the special group rate ($189 per night), please use the booking link below:

Economic & Business History Society Room Block Booking Link

We encourage you to book early, as rooms within the block are available on a first-come, first-served basis and may sell out before the cut-off date, which is April 27, 2026.

Please note that the link will automatically register for arrival on Wednesday May 27 through Sunday May 31. If you need to change those dates, you can find the “Edit Stay” towards the top of the page.

If you have any questions regarding accommodations, please feel free to reach out.

We look forward to seeing you in May!

Theresa, EBHS President and 2026 Conference Organizer

Birmingham Conference Accommodation and Transportation

Posted on: March 11th, 2025 by EBHS

Hilton Birmingham Downtown at UAB

HOTEL

A direct link to the hotel booking site through the Hilton at UAB is below:

Link to Hotel Registration

Please note that when clicking “book a room” the site might automatically default your stay for May 28-June 1. If this occurs, simply click “edit stay” in the top right corner to modify that stay if necessary. Rooms in our block are limited, so please book at your earliest convenience.

TRANSPORTATION

Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport offers daily non-stop flights to and from 21 destinations. Our hotel is 10 minutes from the airport. For anyone flying into Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport, there is also ground transportation available that runs directly between Hartsfield’s domestic terminal and our conference hotel through Groome Transportation for those interested. A one-way trip is roughly $50 and must be booked in advance. A booking link is provided below.

Link to Groome Transportation

Joint 49th EBHS Annual Conference and ABH Conference 2024: Conference Registration Now Open

Posted on: April 19th, 2024 by EBHS
EBHS 2024 Conference Promo

York, UK. Dmitrij M, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and edited.

Joint 49th Economic and Business History Society Annual Conference and Association of Business Historians Conference 2024

York, UK

27 to 29 June 2024

‘Connections’

Conference Registration Now Open

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Joint EBHS-ABH Conference in York from 27 to 29 June 2024. Included in the registration fee is our conference dinner on the evening of Saturday, 29 June, and membership of the Economic and Business History Society and the Association of Business Historians for the 12 months following the conference. Our conference fees are as follows:

  • Early Bird Rate – £250 (Available until 7 June 2024)
  • Full Rate – £300 (From 8 June 2024 to the conference)
  • Doctoral Students and Retired Colleagues – £150
  • Additional Guests for the Conference Dinner – £59

Please note that we require at least one presenter of each paper to have registered by 7 June 2024. Any papers without presenters registered by this date will be removed from the programme for the conference.

If you are planning on attending the conference dinner at the Principal Hotel in York (Adjacent to the railway station), you will need to register your menu choices as part of registration. Details are available here.

Outline Programme

In addition to the opening of registration we are pleased to announce a new panel for the conference, the Journal Editors Panel on ‘Connections in publishing Economic and Business History’, featuring editors and associate editors from Business History, Essays in Economic and Business History, Enterprise and Society and the Journal of Management History.

We are also pleased to announce the title of Dr Susie Pak’s keynote speech set to close the conference on Saturday afternoon, ‘How to Be a Success in Business: Storytelling & Belonging from the World of Finance’.

The outline programme is now available here (subject to change and additions).

Conference Venues and Hotels

Our main conference venue is the De Grey Court building at York St John University, less than a 15-minute walk from the railway station in York and in walking distance of most hotels in York.

If you are looking for a hotel for the conference, we have prepared this list of suggestions which might help you.