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 Dear All, We hope you are keeping well. In view of the current pandemic, ICHRE has decided to replace its planned summer conference for 2020 with an online history of education research conference on 9 July 2020. This will be organised to help maintain contacts between researchers in the history of education in the UK and in different parts of the world, and also to highlight new research and current publications and projects in the history of education. The conference will be free to attend and open to all, and run via Blackboard Collaborate. Please see our new website for further information about the conference.  We plan to organise the day in three sections from 10.30 to 17.30 UK time to allow participation as appropriate from different time zones, with breaks envisaged. At this stage conference sessions will run (session 1) from 11.00 to 12.30, (session 2) from 14.00 to 15.30, and (session 3) from 16.30 to 17.30 UK time - we will circulate a full programme in due course. The format will be short (max 10 minutes) presentations with plenty of time for discussion. We welcome works-in-progress and contributions from researchers and research students at any stage of a project.  We welcome offers to contribute short presentations and messages suitable for the online format. A: Presentations on new research in the history of education:  please send A short titleAn abstract (up to 200 words)Contact details and affiliation/s of presenters as appropriate to be shared with members of the conferenceConfirmation that the lead presenter (and others as appropriate) will take part in the conference, and a preferred session for the presentation if appropriate due to timezones etc.Please send this information to Professor Gary McCulloch at g.mcculloch [at] ucl.ac.uk by Monday 15 June, with email heading of ICHRE online conference 2020.  These will be assessed and confirmed for inclusion, to be included in a draft programme to be circulated by Wednesday 1 July. Presentations at the conference will be for 10 minutes maximum, and online facilities will permit up to 5 slides to accompany the presentation. Presentations must be delivered in English. B: Book launches Please send details of new authored or edited books in the history of education to be highlighted at the conference. Please send: Details of the book – title, author/s, publisher, ISBNLink to publisher’s website with general details of book contents, if availableContact details and affiliation/s of presenters as appropriate to be shared with members of the conferenceConfirmation that the lead author (and others as appropriate) will take part in the conference, and a preferred session for the conference if appropriate due to timezones etc. Please send this information to Dr Maria Williams at maria.williams.14 [at] alumni.ucl.ac.uk by Monday 15 June – with email heading of ICHRE online conference 2020.  These will be assessed and confirmed for inclusion, to be included in a draft programme to be circulated by Wednesday 1 July. Book launches at the conference will be for 10 minutes maximum, and online facilities will permit up to 5 slides to accompany the launch. C: Messages for conference delegates from groups or individual researchers in the history of education, for general contact or responses to the conference. Please send before or during the conference via the registration page.  Registration Please register for the conference, which is free to all, as soon as possible and by 1 July at the latest.  Further details of accessing the conference online and the draft programme will be circulated to registered delegates of the conference. We look forward very much to providing a means to maintain contact between researchers in the history of education in the UK and around the world, and to highlighting new research, and to welcoming you to the online conference on Thursday 9 July. With best wishes,  Georgina Brewis, Mark Freeman, Gary McCulloch, Maria Williams and Tom Woodin   International Centre for Historical Research in Education, UCL Institute of Education   Twitter: @ioe_ichre Web: https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ichre/