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.

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 News

The RHS Bibliography has now been replaced by the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), a new service produced jointly by a partnership between the Society, the Institute of Historical research and Brepols Publishers.

Subscribers and members of subscribing institutions can go straight to the new Bibliography by visiting: http://www.brepolis.net/ and clicking on 'Enter databases' .

To find out more about this new resource and how to subscribe visit the Bibliography's page on the Institute of Historical Research website.

 

These web pages last updated Tuesday 2 February 2010

 

(A Royal Historical Society Dinner held at the Holborn Restaurant, 6 July 1922, with the President, the Honorable J W Fortesque in the Chair)