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 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.
Publishers
The Society offers annual prizes for historical publications.
Researchers
The Society produces, in conjunction with the Institute of Historical Research, the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), a database of over 490,000 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 three times annually, and includes near-comprehensive coverage of works since 1901 and selected earlier works.
The Gerald Aylmer Seminar 'Locating the Past', 29 February 2012
History Lectures, Seminars, Calls for Papers
These web pages last updated Friday 27 January 2012
(Picture: Miniature painting of a woman reading a music book, Geoffroy Tory Book of Hours, Ms, Library of Congress. Rosenwald ms. 10 (1553)