At its latest meeting on 25 September 2026, the RHS Council elected 70 Fellows, 59 Associate Fellows, 27 Members and 59 Postgraduate Members, a total of 213 people newly associated with the Society, from today.
The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a wide range of fields; but also include curators, librarians, heritage specialists, independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from sixteen countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Israel, Malaysia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The new Associate Fellows include not only early career historians in higher education but also historians with professional and private research interests drawn from heritage, learned societies, libraries and archives, teaching, and public and community history.
The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals working in universities, culture and heritage, education, the civil service and broadcasting – together with independent and community historians and genealogists.
Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in history, or related subjects, at 43 different universities in the UK, Australia, China, Crete, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Pakistan, and the United States.
All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.
New Fellows and Members are elected at regular intervals through the year. The next deadline for applications is Monday 14 December 2026.
Those interested in applying to join the Society (as a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or Postgraduate Member) should consult the Join Us pages of the RHS website. Full details of the benefits of Fellowship and Membership are available in the Society’s new Guide for Members.
New Fellows, September 2026
- Mette Maria Ahlefeldt-Laurvig
- Lisa Bitel
- Boris Briones-Soto
- Hilary Buxton
- Ciara Chambers
- Apurba Chatterjee
- Lindsay Chervinsky
- John Chircop
- John-Henry Clay
- Jeanne Clegg
- Will Clement
- Simon Constantine
- Christopher Coome
- David Crankshaw
- Lucy Curzon
- Surekha Davies
- Inge Dornan
- Elodie Duché
- Lorren Eldridge
- Raphael Franck
- Robert Frank
- Helen Frisby
- Helen Fry
- Ming Gao
- Abigail Green
- Nicoletta Gullace
- Riya Gupta
- Sally Hadden
- Mirjam Hähnle
- Sandip Hazareesingh
- Mary Horbury
- Thomas Albert Howard
- David Johnson
- Vandana Joshi
- Hazel Kent
- Uganda Kwan
- Marie-Louise Lillywhite
- Karen Lipsedge
- Anna Lively
- Shane Lynn
- Christos Lynteris
- Christopher Massey
- Charles-Francois Mathis
- Ciaran McDonough
- Kate McLoughlin
- Simon Mills
- Sharifah Faizah Syed Mohammed
- Brian Murphy
- James Naus
- Debra Parish
- Lucia Patrizio Gunning
- Simon Peplow
- Nabi Sahak
- Stefano Serafini
- Adam Sisman
- Anthony Smart
- Mark Smith
- Anna Snaith
- Erika Stalcup
- Rachel Stone
- Kirsten Tambling
- Tristan Taylor
- Lucy Taylor
- Natasa Thoudam
- Graeme Tobyn
- Guðrún Dröfn Whitehead
- Yinrui Xie
- Oliver Yule-Smith
- Alessandra Zanetti
- Tommaso Zerbi
New Associate Fellows, September 2026
- Akhil A R
- Amrita Ajay
- David Austen
- Christopher Bates
- Leonie Bausch
- Katy Bennett
- Richard Braude
- Janette Bright
- Thomas Brown-Warr
- Victoria Burns-Price
- Neil Chatelain
- Rajesh Chauhan
- Samuel Cheney
- Heeral Chhabra
- David Francisco de Moura Penteado
- Louise Earnshaw
- Gabriella Eőry
- James Gallacher
- Elena Ghiggino
- David Hall
- Brittany Hanlon
- Jennifer Harland
- Rosalind Hayes
- Cheng He
- Matthew Hurst
- Michael Joalland
- Anouska Lester
- Zongyue Liu
- Susan Lockhart
- Saptarshi Mallick
- CJ Manjarres-Wahlberg
- Joseph Manock
- Arvand Mirsafian
- Saarang Narayan
- Alice Naylor
- Samantha Nelson
- Roberto Nigro
- Megan Palmer
- Justine Pick
- Roslyn Potter
- Indu Prasad
- Daniel Rignall
- Jude Rowley
- John Russell
- Ben Sandell
- Brigitta Kinga Schvéd
- Daniel Seal
- Heloise Senechal
- Eleanor Stephenson
- Anna Talley
- Adefolatomiwa Toye
- Sophie Turbutt
- Hazel Vosper
- Stephanie Wanga
- Robert Williamson
- Faye Wills
- Samantha Wilson
New Members, September 2026
- Sarah Ahmed
- Mansour Al-Rumaih
- Nicholas Bebb
- Stephen Bell
- Margaret Bramwell Doyle
- Alison Brown
- Ashley Byford-Bates
- Celia Carrington
- Christopher Carroll
- Casey Christall
- Nina Dickens
- John Dolan
- Lachlan Finlayson
- David Harries
- Lesley Hewett
- Sarah Jones
- Kanhai Kaj
- Marie-Louise Leonard
- Thomas Old
- Rhys Peregrine
- Elizabeth Power
- Aryan Pratap Singh
- Dipesh Raithatha
- Muhammad Arif Soomro
- Tobias Aleksander Sveum Isaksen
- Deeksha Tyagi
- Aswin Vijayan
New Postgraduate Members, September 2026
- Neo-Aidan Allert
- Naif Alrogi
- Sophie Appleby-Taylor
- Reuben Baldwin
- Iyanu Bankole
- Janina Bechtold
- Inigo Bing
- Kelly Bosomworth
- Eliza Cane-Honeysett
- Rosie Charles
- Emily Christaki
- Theo Christodoulidis
- Lynsey Cowlishaw
- Kim Davies
- Elizabeth DeBold
- Isabel Dennis
- James Dranfield
- Elisa Duriavig
- Rebeka Erdélyiová
- Richard John Glass
- Craig Grant
- Paulo Vitor Guedes de Souza
- John Harpour
- Robert Houghton
- Muminah Hussain
- Mats Inauen
- Isabella Inskip
- Evgeniya Ivanova
- Joe Jones
- Ehsan Ahmad Khan
- Daniel Kinsey
- James Kutin
- John Lees
- Timothy Li
- Isabel Mangum
- Ryan Marlowe
- Helen-Eva McCamley
- Neil McClelland
- Anthony Mills
- Anamika Mohanta
- Kristen Nelson
- Olga Nikonenko
- Linka (Caroline) Nowell-Wheeler
- Idris Olabode
- Georgia Platt
- Ioannis Psifas
- Muskan Rawat
- Lilja Ruismäki
- Eleanor Schling
- Pragya Sharma
- Lisa Stokes
- Alicia Vine
- Elaine Warriner
- Oliver Whiteman
- Joe Williams
- Deyu Yan
- Usama Zafar
- Marco Zamattia
- Xiangtai Zeng
HEADER IMAGE: Piece from a Kosode with Chrysanthemums and Leaves, Japan, Edo period (1615–1868), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain