The Selden Society is the only learned society and publisher devoted entirely to English legal history.

This includes the history of the law, the development of legal ideas, the legal profession, the courts and legal institutions, individual judges and lawyers, legal literature and records; in short, researching the history of everything which is characteristic of our unique English common law and legal system.

Our 2024 Annual Report is now available on our Web pages. This year’s  Annual General Meeting of the Society was held at Gray’s Inn on 30 June.  Professor Joshua Tate’s  lecture on ‘The King’s Pirates: Medieval Privileges of the Cinque Ports’ can now be viewed via the Lectures tab.