The Historical Metallurgy Society organises several meetings each year.

The Society holds its Annual General Meeting in a different part of the UK in the spring each year. After the AGM there is usually a one day meeting with specialist lecturers.

Each year the Society holds a two day residential conference (usually in the United Kingdom) each Autumn with a programme of papers from invited speakers and reports of work by Society members built round visits to sites. One day at the Conference is spent in the field with coaches taking members to places of interest, which might be the remains of Copper Mining in Staffordshire, Lead Mining in the Peak District, or Tin Mines along the rocky Cornish coast; or it may be to ruined furnace remains in South Wales or the Forest of Dean. The sites are as varied as the enigmatic wastes of Bronze Age Flag Fen or a small lonely group of granite boulders marking an ancient tin smelting site on the top of Dartmoor. Sometimes members may be fortunate enough to see a working edge-tool mill or a demonstration of crucible steel making.