The Government of the Society

PRESIDENT: Professor Colin Jones, FBA

Professor of History, History Department, Queen Mary, University of London

Convenor of the History Research panel of the AHRC, Co-Editor of Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories

HONORARY SECRETARY: Dr Adam Smith

Senior Lecturer, History Department, University College London

Member of the editorial board of Reviews in History. Secretary of the Peter Parish Memorial Fund of the British Association of American Nineteenth-Century Historians.

HONORARY TREASURER: Professor Michael Hughes

Professor of Russian History, History Department, University of Liverpool

Associate of the Centre for Central & East European Studies; Co-Editor of Russia's Great War & Revolution; Fellow of the Higher Education Academy; Convenor of the Connexional Records Task Group of the Methodist Church of Great Britain

HONORARY DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS: Dr Emma Griffin

Senior Lecturer, History Department, University of East Anglia

Joint-Editor of History - the Journal of the Historical Association

LITERARY DIRECTOR: Dr Ian Archer

Fellow, Keble College, Oxford

Humanities Advisor for the Oxford Learning Institute; member of the Publications Committee of the IHR; Member of the Academic Advisory Committee for the 'Early English Books On-line and Text Creation Partnership' Project; Academic Advisor to the records of the 'Early English Drama' project; Member of the AHRC Peer Review College; School governor of the London Academy of Excellence.

LITERARY DIRECTOR: Professor Arthur Burns

Professor of Modern British History, History Department, Kings College London

Co-Editor of Studies in Modern British Religious History; Convenor of the Modern Religious History and British History in the Long Eighteenth century seminars at the IHR; Vice-President of the Church of England Record Society; Project Director of 'The Clergy of the Church of England Database, 1540-1835' project; Co-Editor of CCED Online Journal ; member of the Advisory Panel of the Connected Histories Project (JISC); member of Advisory panels for 'British State Prayers, Fasts and Thanksgivings 1540s-1940s' project (AHRC) and 'Landscape and Enclosure: Northamptonshire 1700-1900' project

HONORARY ACADEMIC EDITOR (BBIH): Professor Stephen Taylor

Professor of Early Modern History, History Department (from 1 April 2012) Professor in the History of Early Modern England, Department of History, Durham University.,

General Editor of the Church of England Record Society; Editor of Parliamentary History: Texts and Studies; member of the Editorial Board of Studies in Modern British Religious History and the Editorial Board of Studies in Early Modern Cultural and Social History (Boydell Press); Project Director of 'The Clergy of the Church of England database, 1540-1835' project; Co-Editor of CCED Online Journal; Co-investigator for 'British State Prayers, Fasts and Thanksgivings 1540s-1940s' project (AHRC); Member of the AHRC Peer Review College and Strategic Reviewers Group; member of the IHR Publications Board; Member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Dissenting Studies; member of advisory panel for the 'Who were the nuns?' project (AHRC) and the Göottingen Personalunion Research Project.

VICE-PRESIDENT: Dr Robert Baldock

Managing Director, Yale UP (London) and Editorial Director Humanities

VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor Margot Finn

Professor of History, Department of History, University of Warwick

VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor Colin Kidd

Professor of Intellectual History and the History of Political Thought, School of History and Anthropology, Queen's University Belfast

VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor Peter Mandler

Professor of Modern Cultural History, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

Member of the Editorial Boards of Historical Journal, Modern Intellectual History and Journal of British Studies; Member of the Advisory Boards of Journal of Victorian Culture and Virtus: Yearbook for the Study of the Nobility in Europe; Member of the Project Board, 'British Newspapers 1620-1900' (JISC)

VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor Nicola Miller

Professor of Latin American History, History Department, University College London

VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor Andrew Pettegree

Professor of History, School of History, University of St Andrews

COUNCILLOR: Professor Simon Barton

Professor of History, School of History, University of Exeter

Member of Spanish Ministry of Science and Education Postdoctoral Fellowships Selection Committee; General Editor of Studies in Medieval Europe series (Exeter University Press); Associate Editor of Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean; member of the Editorial Boards of Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, Studia Historica: Historia Medieval, History Compass, Outremer: Studies in the Crusades, Mission and the Latin East (Brepols), Intus-Legere, Semata. Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades.

COUNCILLOR: Professor Mark Cornwall

Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton

Chair of the Forum of British, Czech and Slovak Historians; Member of the Editorial Boards of Slavonic and East European Review, Central Europe, Bohemia, Zeitschrift für Geschichte der bohmischen Lander; holder of an AHRC award to investigate 'Memorialization and Regeneration: the Male Wartime Generation in the Successor States, 1918-1930' project; member of editorial board of First World War Studies.

COUNCILLOR: Professor Simon Dixon

Sir Bernard Pares Chair of Russian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL

Co-Editor of OUP monograph series Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Associate Editor of journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History

COUNCILLOR: Professor David Feldman

Professor of History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology Birkbeck College, University of London

COUNCILLOR: Professor Ken Fincham

Professor of Early Modern History, Head of School of History, University of Kent

Co-Editor of Studies in Modern British Religious History; Co-convenor of the 'Religious History of Britain' IHR seminar ; Co-director of 'The Clergy of the Church of England Database, 1540-1835' project; Consultant editor of the Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne; reviser for Pre-U A-level History

COUNCILLOR: Dr Lars Fischer

Academic Director, CRCR, Woolf Institute, University of Cambridge

Secretary and Bulletin editor, British Association for Jewish Studies; review section editor of East European Jewish Affairs; contributing reviews editor of Biography.

COUNCILLOR: Dr Jill Lewis

Reader, History Department, Swansea University

COUNCILLOR: Professor Anthony Musson

Professor of Legal History, Director of the Centre for Legal History Research, School of Law, University of Exeter

Honorary Secretary of The Dodderidge Club; Editor of Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe.

COUNCILLOR: Dr Alan Thacker

Executive Editor, Victoria County History, Institute of Historical Research

COUNCILLOR: Professor Chris Whatley

Professor of Scottish History, Vice-Principle and Head of College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dundee

COUNCILLOR: Professor Philip Williamson

Professor of History, History Department, University of Durham

Member of the editorial advisory board of English Historical Review.

COUNCILLOR: Professor David Wootton

Anniversary Professor of History, History Department, University of York