Royal Historical Society

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. We welcome all enquiries for membership from those with a commitment to the serious study of the past.

Historians

The Society promotes discussion of history by means of a full programme of public lectures and conferences, and disseminates the results of historical research and debate through its many publications. It also speaks for the interests of history and historians.

Postgraduate students

The Society offers grants to support research training and prizes. The Society offers grants to support research training and prizes.

 

Publishers

The Society offers annual prizes for historical publications.

The Society is pleased to announce this year's awards for publication:

Alexander Prize 2007

David Berry Prize 2007

Gladstone Prize 2007

Whitfield Prize 2007

The Society produces the Bibliography of British and Irish History, a database of over 400,000 records, by far the most complete online bibliographical resource on British and Irish history, including relations with the empire and the Commonwealth. The Bibliography is updated annually, and includes near-comprehensive coverage of works since 1901 and selected earlier works. To access the Bibliography, click on the link below:

Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History

(Illustration courtesy of Wiltshire Heritage Museum Images 2006)

These web pages last updated Friday 4 July 2008