The yearly Historical Materialism Conference is organized by the journal Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory, who describe their aims as follows:

Caroline Arscott is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of the History of Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London where she has taught since 1988. She was lead curator of “Victorians Decoded: Art and Telegraphy,” The Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 2016, an exhibition linked to an AHRC-funded research project