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.

Researchers

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

 

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Launch of the new Bibliography of British and Irish History

We are delighted to announce the launch on 1 January 2010 of the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). The BBIH has grown out of, and will supersede, the Royal Historical Society Bibliography of British and Irish History. The new service will be a partnership between the Royal Historical Society (RHS), the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and Brepols Publishers.

Further information about the new Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)

Questions and Answers

Publicity leaflet for the BBIH: service available from 1 January 2010

RHS Special Newsletter with more information on the background to the new service from Professor Jones and Dr Archer

 

 

 

(Illustration courtesy of Wiltshire Heritage Museum Images 2006)

These web pages last updated Wednesday 1 July 2009