Welcome to the website of the Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868 and remains the foremost society in Great Britain promoting and defending the scholarly study of the past. In these pages you can access full details of the wide and varied range of the Society's activities.
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The Royal Historical Society's response to the DoE Consultation on Reform of the National Curriculum for HistoryJoint Statement on the Draft National Curriculum for History |
The Royal Historical Society's response to RCUK Policy on Open AccessThe Royal Historical Society's response to HEFCE on Open AccessJoint statement from 20 Learned Societies on Open Access
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PUBLICATIONS AND PRIZESThe Society is pleased to announce the shortlisted volumes for the 2012 Gladstone Prize for a first volume on non-UK history The Society is pleased to announce the shortlisted volumes for the 2012 Whitfield Prize for a first volume on UK history |
HISTORY NEWS |
We welcome all enquiries for membership from those with a commitment to the serious study of the past. The Society promotes discussion of history by means of a full programme of public lectures and disseminates the results of historical research and debate through its many publications. It also speaks for the interests of history and historians. We also offer grants to postgraduate students to support research training and prizes for historical publications. The Society produces, in conjunction with the Institute of Historical Research, the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), a database of over 518,000 records, by far the most complete online bibliographical resource on British and Irish history, including relations with the empire and the Commonwealth.
These web pages last updated Monday 20 May 2013





