Allocation of research funding is central to the Society’s work of supporting historians and historical research.

In 2022 the Society awarded £125,000 in funding to historians through open competitions and in one-off programmes, generously assisted by partner organisations and donors.

From February 2023, the Society launches its new range of funding programmes for historians, within and outside Higher Education, and at all career stages.

Further details of our new Research Funding programmes for 2023 are available here.

Funding is now available in the following three categories:

• Postgraduate Research Funding – a range of scholarships, fellowships and grants for those studying for a History Masters degree or PhD
• Early Career Research Funding – a range of grants for historians within 3 years of completing a doctorate in History
• Open Research Funding – grant options for historians further on from PhD completion, or in mid / later career employed in Higher Education or in other sectors aligned to history

In addition, the Society also offers the following annual programmes in 2023:

• Workshop Grants – enabling groups of historians, at any career stage, to come together to discuss projects in detail: introduced in 2022 and running for its second year in 2023
• Jinty Nelson Teaching Grants – a new scheme to facilitate innovative and creative teaching practice: to be launched in Spring/Summer 2023

Applicants for Royal Historical Society funding must be members of the Society, with several exceptions at Postgraduate level. To find out how to become a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or Postgraduate Member, please see our Join Us page.

For more on the Society’s funding opportunities in 2023, please visit the Research Funding area of our website. Here you’ll find details of each grant programme arranged according to career stage; which programmes are currently accepting applications; closing dates; and how to apply for a specific grant.

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TEXT IMAGE:  The Ladies Bill of Fare, or, a Copious Collection of Beaux, 1795, plate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.

At its latest meeting on 16 September 2022, the RHS Council elected 64 Fellows, 59 Associate Fellows, 57 Members and 59 Postgraduate Members, a total of 239 people newly associated with the Society. We welcome them all.

The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a very wide range of fields; but also include curators, teachers, and independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from Australia, India, Ireland, Spain and the United States.

Our latest intake includes a number of historians working outside History departments, in cognate disciplines in higher education: a reminder that the Fellowship is open to all whose research provides a scholarly contribution to historical knowledge.

The new Associate Fellows include not only early career historians in higher education but also historians with professional and private research interests drawn from broadcasting, archives, museums and teaching.

The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals employed in universities, and as bankers, civil servants, the clergy, lawyers and members of the judiciary and teachers – together with independent and community historians. Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in History, or related subjects, at 30 different universities in the UK, China, Germany, Ghana, Singapore and the United States. All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.

September 2022 sees the admission of our fifth set of Associate Fellows and Postgraduate Members — two new membership categories introduced in late 2021. These changes to membership (about which you can read more here) enable more historians to join the fellowship, and facilitate more focused support for RHS members at the start of their careers.

New Fellows and Members are elected at regular intervals through the year. The current application round is open and runs to Monday 31 October 2022, with the next closing date being Friday 13 January 2023. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member), the benefits of membership (including new benefits added from August 2022), deadlines for applications throughout 2023, and how to apply, are available here.

New Fellows, elected September 2022

• Timothy Alborn
• Athanasios Antonopoulos
• Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
• Gordon Barclay
• Jochen Burgtorf
• John Burke
• Stephen Catterall
• Jessie Childs
• Stephen Clarke
• Sophie Cooper
• Alexander Craven
• Sonya Cronin
• William Dalrymple
• Callan Davies
• Sara Dominici
• Scott Eaton
• Amy Edwards
• Penelope Edwards
• Francisco Eissa-Barroso
• Corisande Fenwick
• Fernanda Gallo
• Austin Glatthorn
• Felicia Gottmann
• Zoe Groves
• Tanya Harmer
• Felicity Hill
• Matthew Alan Hill
• Sarah Irving
• Martin Johnes
• Emma Kay
• Jill Kirby
• Daniel Knowles
• Alice Leonard
• Amy Livingstone
• Simon Mahony
• James Mansell
• Katharine Massam
• David McInnis
• Marcus Meer
• Gavin Miller
• Gillian Mitchell
• Alexia Moncrieff
• Eva Moreda Rodríguez
• Federico Paolini
• Simon Parkin
• Chelsea Phillips
• Lydia Plath
• Tanja Poppelreuter
• Matthew Powell
• Lynda Pratt
• Eoin Price
• Dieter Reinisch
• Stephen Ridgwell
• Jesús Sanjurjo
• Jayita Sarkar
• Leo Shipp
• Rebecca Simon
• Elaine Sisson
• Jean Smith
• Agnieszka Sobocinska
• Kenneth Stewart
• Nino Strachey
• Tom Ue
• Samuel Garrett Zeitlin

New Associate Fellows, elected September 2022

• Rowena Abdul Razak
• SJ Allen
• Alan Anderson
• Ed Armston-Sheret
• Matthew Ball
• Gad Barnea
• Lisa Berry-Waite
• Tobias Bowman
• John Broom
• Hayley Brown
• Esther Brown
• Anna Cusack
• Wim De Winter
• Iain Farquharson
• Rosaria Franco
• Pauline Gardiner
• Milo Gough
• Tim Guile
• Gabriel Gurian
• Julia Hamilton
• Terra Han
• Antony Harvey
• Matthew Hedges
• Joseph Higgins
• Deb Hunter
• Baher Ibrahim
• Emily Ireland
• Malarvizhi Jayanth
• David Jones
• Sebastian Jones
• Kathryn Lamontagne
• Christopher Lewis
• Sundeep Lidher
• Mark Liebenrood
• Rosanagh Mack
• Nenad Marković
• Eva Charlotta Mebius
• Debora Moretti
• George Morris
• Janet Morrison
• Anna Muggeridge
• Levin Opiyo
• Manolis Pagkalos
• Chris Perry
• Stuart Pracy
• Richard Purkiss
• Maurice Robinson
• Linda Ross
• Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
• Kanika Sharma
• Gabrielle Storey
• James Taylor
• Floris van Swet
• Robert Wilde-Evans
• David Williamson
• Jon Winder
• Malgorzata Wloszycka
• Lucy Wray
• Xuduo Zhao

New Members, elected September 2022

• John Allen
• Muhammad Ashraf
• Tom Baldwin
• Ruman Banerjee
• Jennifer Barlow
• Tyler Bender
• Lara Bevan-Shiraz
• Luca Boschetti
• John Chan
• Kim Cliett Long
• Lucy Coatman
• Rory Cooper
• Eleanor Coppard
• Ian Davidson
• James Edwards
• John Leopoldo Fiorilla di Santa Croce
• Gordon Fisher
• Kate Gibson
• Michael Gillibrand
• Adhila Hameed
• Chengwei Han
• Graham Haynes
• Elaine Huggett
• James Humphrey
• Malcolm Johnston
• Matteo Lai
• Chi Lau
• Barry MacNeill
• Laura Leigh Majernik
• Birahim Mbow
• Hanjia Miao
• Leonardo Monno
• David Moshier
• Ernest Mudzengerere
• Frederick Newell
• Ali Nihat
• Michal Fryderyk Nowacki
• Finnian Orders
• David Owen-Jones
• Kannen Ramsamy
• Ian Rummery
• Christopher Said
• Steffi Santhana Mary
• Stephanie Saunders
• Simon Scruton
• Vinod Sharma
• Zhe Tian
• Khosrow Tousi
• David Vanegas
• Andrew Varga
• Ioannis Vougioukas
• James Watson
• Richard Whitaker
• Karen Witt
• Zehan Zhang

New Postgraduate Members, elected September 2022

• Tristan Alphey
• Sydney Arnold
• Mathew Ayamdoo
• Jennifer Baillie
• Daniel Banks
• Sarah Bernhardt
• Tom Brautigam
• Janette Bright
• Michelle Castelletti
• Santorri Chamley
• Ying Sum Chan
• Francesca Chappell
• Ram Choudhury
• Natali Cinelli Moreira
• Scott Connors
• Mairead Costello
• Amber Cross
• Henry Daramola-Martin
• Clemmie de la Poer Beresford
• Chris Doyen
• Kim Embrey
• Nicholas Fitzhenry
• Jamie Gemmell
• Rebecca Goldsmith
• Irene Hallyburton
• Julia Helman
• Ho Hin Ho
• Gemma Jackson
• David Karoon
• Urvi Khaitan
• Henna Khanom
• Emma Kiey
• Louis Kill-Brown
• Thomas Kingston
• Daniel MacDonald
• Micah Mackay
• Perseverence Madhuku
• Joshua Madrid
• Jayne Martin
• Graham Moore
• Erin Newman
• Alison Norton
• Raphael Oidtmann
• Allan Pang
• Kirsten Parkin
• Ahmed Patrick-Lalljee
• Ann Pomphrey
• Ollie Randall
• Robert Runacres
• Beckie Rutherford
• Victoria Sands
• Alexander Sherborne
• Caitlín Smith
• Avery Sprey
• Sadie Sunderland
• Joanne Watson
• Grace Whorrall-Campbell
• Gary Willis
• Xiwen Yang

Header Image: Turquoise Bowl with Lute Player and Audience, attributed Iran, late 12th–early 13th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.

At its latest meeting on 5 May 2023, the RHS Council elected 110 Fellows, 59 Associate Fellows, 57 Members and 89 Postgraduate Members, a total of 315 people newly associated with the Society.

The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a very wide range of fields; but also include museum directors and curators, librarians, heads of learned societies, heritage consultants, and independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from twelve countries: Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, and the United States.

Our latest intake includes a number of historians working outside History departments, in cognate disciplines in higher education (on this occasion, Archaeology, the Built Environment, Art History, Museum Studies, Musicology, Philosophy and Theology): a reminder that the Fellowship is open to all whose research provides a scholarly contribution to historical knowledge.

The new Associate Fellows include not only early career historians in higher education but also historians with professional and private research interests drawn from broadcasting and journalism, conservation, libraries and archives, publishing, public and community history and teaching.

The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals employed in universities, and as civil servants, historical guides, museum managers, teachers, librarians and lawyers – together with independent and community historians. Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in History, or related subjects, at 45 different universities in the UK, Canada, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Norway, South Africa 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 current application round is open and runs to 5 June 2023, with the next closing date after this being 14 August 2023. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member); benefits of membership; deadlines for applications throughout 2023; and how to apply, are available here.

New Fellows, elected May 2023

• Síobhra Aiken
• Samuel Aylett
• Graham Barrett
• Geoffrey Belknap
• Bill Bell
• Caroline Bertoneche
• Carole Biggam
• Uilleam Blacker
• Cristina Blanco Sío-López
• Frank Blazich
• Jasmine Calver
• William Carruthers
• Louise Clare
• Paul Cockerham
• Gregory Conti
• Jack Crangle
• Huw Davies
• Leanda de Lisle
• Jennifer Durrant
• Aidan Enright
• Cindy Ermus
• Alexander Ian Evans
• Christine Ferguson
• Samuel Fornecker
• Sarah Fox
• Matthew Gerth
• Paul Gooding
• Clare Griffin
• John Griffiths
• Peter Gunn
• Hisham Hellyer
• Briony Hudson
• Jochen Hung
• Adeel Hussain
• Alessandro Iandolo
• Andrew Jones
• Ria Kapoor
• Stephen Kay
• Alexander Kazamias
• Stephen Kite
• Lars Kjær
• Francis Knights
• Paul Kua
• Dawn LaValle Norman
• Adam Lerner
• Amy Lidster
• Domenico Lovascio
• David Lund
• Joyce Macadam
• Kevin Manton
• Emily Mark-FitzGerald
• Brian McCook
• Thomas McInally
• Victoria Mcmahon
• Elizabeth Miller
• Sarah-Louise Miller
• Lynneth Miller Renberg
• Simon Mollan
• Luisa Morettin
• Eve Morrison
• Clare Mulley
• Andrea Nicholson
• Aidan Norrie
• Alexander O’Hara
• John Oliphant
• Sebastian Page
• Danielle Park
• James Payton
• Andrew Phemister
• Diana Popescu
• Robin Prior
• Caroline Radcliffe
• Mark Rankin
• David Raw
• Adam Richardson
• Mike Robinson
• Evan Rothera
• Fearghus Roulston
• Maeve Ryan
• Edward Salo
• Russell Sandberg
• Sathnam Sanghera
• Bihani Sarkar
• Kristalyn Shefveland
• Freya Sierhuis
• Daniel Simpson
• Kate Skinner
• Chloe Wigston Smith
• Martyn Smith
• Claudia Soares
• Charles Spicer
• Alan Strauss-Schom
• Ryan Sweet
• Tom Sykes
• Mari Takayanagi
• Terry Tastard
• Nicholas Taylor-Collins
• Jonathan Topham
• Simon Trafford
• Deborah Valenze
• Marcel van der Linden
• Christina Welch
• Rosamund Lily West
• Kenton White
• Antia Wiersma
• Wendy Wiertz
• Bastiaan Willems
• Theo Williams
• Andrew Winrow
• Koji Yamamoto

New Associate Fellows, elected May 2023

• Olga Akroyd
• Emily Betz
• Eric Blakeley
• Roger Brown
• David Brown
• Jordan Brown
• Robert Butt
• Evan Cater
• Sanjay Chaudhari
• David Cowan
• David Dennis
• Ana Dias
• Collins Edigin
• Jasmine Elmer
• Jennifer Farquharson
• Jayne Friend
• Mario Graña Taborelli
• Lawrence Gregory
• Carla Gutierrez Ramos
• Catherine Healy
• Ralf Bernd Herden
• Siobhan Hyland
• Zoë Karens
• Phil Lyon
• Hélène Maloigne
• Davide Massimo
• Javan Mokebo
• Sophia Nicolov
• Grace Owen
• Carla Passino
• Sarah Phelan
• Georgia Priestley
• Justin Reash
• Fatima Rhorchi
• Sarah Sargent
• Jade Scott
• Michael Sewell
• John Simpson
• Jonathan Skan
• Helen Snelson
• Andrew Southam
• Alice Spiers
• Michael Stansfield
• Izaak Tanna
• Clare Tonks
• Adrian Waddingham
• James Whitworth
• Thomas Wilkinson
• Calista Williams
• Yen Nie Yong

New Members, elected May 2023

• Marcus Aldrich
• Ajay Asthana
• Robert Bardell
• Vicky Basra
• Colin Brewer
• Robert Bullard
• Inskip Cable
• Christopher Chambers
• David Clarkson
• David Crawford-Cummings
• Ian Cummins
• Brianna Dalrymple
• Luis de Mascorro-Gonzalez
• Thomas Deegan
• Enver Alper Demirci
• Piper Dobbie
• John Engle III
• Lee David Evans
• Carol Fawsitt
• Lydia Fell
• Troy Gallagher
• Lee Gatiss
• Derek Greenwell
• Lizzie Grice
• Jack Guise
• Laura Hawthorn
• Hayley Hayhurst
• Niall Hegarty
• Jens Hepper
• Thomas Hooley
• Edward Hopkins
• Yu-Yin Hsu
• Tyler Ivey
• Olivia Jones
• Sarah Kirkman
• Philipp Kneissl
• Amanda Littlefield
• Martin Loy
• Mark Milligan
• George Muirhead
• Derek Nesbitt
• Aleksandr Novikov
• Patricia Okello-Amoah
• Abdallah Omar
• Brian Parker
• Ayush Rai
• Joshua Reinke
• Shabib Rizvi
• Buffy Schilling
• Kevin Smith
• Ka Pok Tam
• Heather Turnbull
• Philippe Van Hootegem
• Charles Weigand
• Alexander Witt
• Matthew Yates
• Sara Yorath

New Postgraduate Members, elected May 2023

• Michael Admiraal
• Dorcas Akinbo
• Kye Allen
• Maaian Aner
• Arjan Arenas
• Jonathan Baddley
• Nicola Barker
• Christopher Bates
• Nicholas Berbiers
• Christopher Berriman
• Ishmael Bhila
• Joseph Biesterfield
• Dmytro Bondarenko
• Gabriele Bonomelli
• Madeleine Bracey
• Julian Calcagno
• Hollie Chambers
• Tori Champion
• Pui To Chan
• Paris Chen
• Catherine Clarke
• Brittany Clarke
• Alex Cooper
• Emily Cotton
• Ailene Crum
• Hana Cutts-Smith
• Siobhan Daly
• Suchintan Das
• Nicole DeRushie
• Emmay Deville
• Mark Dodson
• Corey Estensen
• Gregory Finney
• Madeleine Foote
• Eleanor Gillespie
• Yan Cong Benjamin Goh
• Paul Hamilton
• Zarna Hart
• Cheng He
• Jennifer Hemphill
• Alison Hight
• Gill Holmes
• Emma  Hyde
• Elizabeth Isaac
• Jagriti Jagriti
• Lewis Johnson
• Jessica Johnston
• Sajjad Kantrikar
• Kishwer Khan
• Hewa Matharage Pathum Kodikara
• Jonathan Kuo
• Kin-yu Lau
• Amanda Lavelle
• Wen Yi Leong
• Kevin Lockyer
• Michael Lucy
• Dickson Mangsatabam
• Julie Mathias
• Isabelle Moss
• Connor Muqiao
• Liberty Murphy
• Fatima Naveed
• Lesley Niezynski
• Zala Pochat Krizaj
• Mads Proitz
• Madeleine Reynolds
• Francesco Romagnoli
• Amelia Rosch
• Elena Rossi
• James Samuel
• Jamie Selig
• Sana Shah
• Timothy Sim
• Judith Somekh
• Brendan Tam
• Alex Tant-Brown
• Patrick Taylor
• Rose Teanby
• Fabiënne Tetteroo
• Emma Teworte
• Melita  Thomas
• Aurelie Toitot
• Moussa Traore
• Reynold Kai Won Tsang
• Francisca Valenzuela Villaseca
• Isobel Weare
• Mackenzie Wells
• Emma  Yeo
• Zijian Zhang

HEADER IMAGE: People from Five Countries (detail) Utagawa (Gountei) Sadahide Japanese, 1861, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.

At its latest meeting on 2 December 2022, the RHS Council elected 102 Fellows, 49 Associate Fellows, 64 Members and 93 Postgraduate Members, a total of 308 people newly associated with the Society. We welcome them all.

The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a very wide range of fields; but also include curators, teachers, broadcasters, film-makers, heritage consultants, independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from 12 countries: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, the UK and United States.

Our latest intake includes a number of historians working outside History departments, in cognate disciplines in higher education: a reminder that the Fellowship is open to all whose research provides a scholarly contribution to historical knowledge.

The new Associate Fellows include not only early career historians in higher education but also historians with professional and private research interests drawn from broadcasting, archives, museums and teaching.

The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals employed in universities, and as archaeologists, archivists, civil servants, conservators and surveyors, lawyers and members of the judiciary, and teachers – together with independent and community historians. Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in History, or related subjects, at 38 different universities in the UK, India and the United States. All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.

December 2022 sees the admission of our sixth set of Associate Fellows and Postgraduate Members — two new membership categories introduced in late 2021. These changes to membership (about which you can read more here) enable more historians to join the fellowship, and facilitate more focused support for RHS members at the start of their careers.

New Fellows and Members are elected at regular intervals through the year. The current application round is open and runs to Friday 13 January 2023, with the next closing date being Monday 10 April 2023. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member); benefits of membership (including new benefits added from August 2022); deadlines for applications throughout 2023; and how to apply, are available here.

New Fellows, elected December 2022

• Robin Adams
• Christin Anderson
• Robert Mervyn Andrews
• Anthi Andronikou
• David Annal
• Gordon Barrett
• Paul Bartrop
• Catherine Bateson
• Michel Beaulieu
• Gurminder Bhambra
• Lindy Brady
• Ben Bronnert Walker
• Carys Brown
• Rhona Brown
• Anthony Bruce
• Sara Caputo
• Jack Meng-Tat Chia
• Rachel Chin
• Stephanie Mooers Christelow
• David Clayton
• Guillaume Coatalen
• Marcus Colla
• Mary Cunningham
• Gavin Daly
• Shomik Dasgupta
• Theodor Dunkelgrün
• Charles Emmerson
• Christina Faraday
• James Fenwick
• Larrie Ferreiro
• Richard Finn
• James Fisher
• Gabriela Frei
• Yan Gao
• John Goodwin
• Daniel Gosling
• Andrew James William Gow
• Martin Halliwell
• Jessica Hammett
• Iain Hay
• Sacha Hepburn
• Christian Hogsbjerg
• Aya Homei
• Hetta Howes
• Gavin Hughes
• Peter Jordan
• Isidoros Katsos
• Siobhan Keenan
• Elisabeth Kehoe
• Ariane Knüsel
• Umit Kurt
• Robert Lambert
• Adrian Leonard
• Henrietta Lidchi
• Kate Loveman
• Deborah Madden
• Brandon Marsh
• Simone Marshall
• Zareer Masani
• Gordon McKelvie
• Bronagh McShane
• Athanasius McVay
• William Melville
• Matthew Metcalfe
• Ian Milligan
• Stephen Mullen
• Souvik Naha
• Thomas Neuhaus
• Brooke Newman
• Helen O’Shea
• Marina Perez de Arcos
• Andrew Pickering
• Toby Purser
• Karen Racine
• Charles Read
• Steven Reid
• Jennifer Richards
• Huw Richards
• Euan Roger
• Anat Rosenberg
• Hannah Ryley
• Sophie Scott-Brown
• Mary Shannon
• Patricio Simonetto
• Jonathan Singerton
• Frederick Smith
• Michael Spence
• Howard Spencer
• Foteini Spingou
• Anastasia Stouraiti
• Jennifer Summers
• Drew Thomas
• Sharon Thompson
• Graham Twelftree
• Vikram Visana
• John Wall
• Ryland Wallace
• Emily Ward
• Emma Whipday
• Benedict Wiedemann
• Roger Willoughby
• Matthew Wilson
• Esther Wright
• Peter Yeandle

New Associate Fellows, elected December 2022

• Zaib un Nisa Aziz
• Philip Ball
• Johan Bergstrom-Allen
• Sushant Bharti
• Amie Bolissian Mcrae
• Kirsty Bolton
• Lyndsie Bourgon
• Caitlin Burge
• John Condren
• David Crowther
• Josephine Cummins
• Fraser Dallachy
• Helen Esfandiary
• Nick Evans
• Aida Fernandez Prieto
• Joshua Fitzgerald
• Beth Gaskell
• Tim Glasby
• Nikolaos Gourof
• Jamie Graves
• Kieran Hazzard
• Melanie Hollis
• Stephanie Howard-Smith
• Sandra Hynes
• Emmeline Ledgerwood
• Bruce Lindsay
• Sophie Mann
• Kate Marlow
• Sean McDonagh
• Moritz Mihatsch
• Sarah-Louise Miller
• Julie Miller
• Szilvia Musasizi
• David Pendleton
• Rebecca Pollack
• Yitong Qiu
• Wilfred Rhoden
• Darrell Rivers
• Olha Romanova
• Raphael Schäfer
• Alireza Shams Lahijani
• Julia Skinner
• Ariane Smart
• Callum Smith
• Joseph Stanley
• Tabitha Stanmore
• Robert Tansey
• Marilla Walker
• Amy Wilson

New Members, elected December 2022

• Matthew Abel
• Mubashir Ak
• Inara Andre
• Emma Ash
• Reka Bajus
• Susan Ballard
• Ursula Petula Barzey
• Tony Biebuyck
• Oliver Bircham
• Julie Boden
• Elaine Bodtmann
• John Bridgeman
• Alberto Casado Gómez
• Fiona Cosson
• Jim Cowie
• Joseph Davies
• Salvatore DiStefano
• Adam Down
• Jasper Elwes
• Gary Fellman
• Jonas Frey
• Sushant Ghildyal
• Rebecca Gorman
• Julie Goucher
• Ruth Graham
• Michael Griffiths
• David Griggs
• Andrew Hammond
• Maxine Harcourt-Kelly
• David Harris
• Sara Hashmi
• Kathrine Hopson
• Charlotte Hosford
• Haining Hu
• Sajjad Kantrikar
• Jo Levitt
• Roger Mann
• Jane McChrystal
• Jessica Morris
• Deborah Morrison
• Patrick Mulvenna
• Daniel  Patrick
• Jan Luca Probeck
• Jeffrey Prosser
• Sankaralingam Rathina Kumar
• Joseph Reilly
• Paul Rodriguez
• Offir Rokach
• Simon  Sardeson-Coe
• Christian Schmeiduch
• Iqbal Shaukat
• Benedict Skipper
• Manda Tamosauskaite
• Lori Thomas
• Adam Thomas-Fennelly
• Jesse Ujagbor
• Lard van den Berg
• Serge Van Den Broucke
• Suganya Vishnu
• Paul Walton
• James Whitaker
• Ian Whitehurst
• Samuel Wigley
• Tsz Ho Wong

New Postgraduate Members, elected December 2022

• Carrissa Anderson
• Mehmet Akif Aydemir
• Richard Balas
• Thomas Banbury
• Eduardo Benítez-Inglott y Ballesteros
• Maia Blumberg
• Matthew Bowen
• Jake Bransgrove
• Dominic Bridge
• Theodora Broyd
• Elizabeth Burrell
• Jaime Caballero
• William Campbell
• Theodore Christodoulidis
• Minji Chun
• Kathryn Comper
• Holly Cooper
• Dylan Coulter
• Darold Cuba
• Edward Day
• Elena Doran
• Spencer Drake
• Hollie Eaton
• Nathan Eckersley
• Teuku Reza Fadeli
• Helen Flatley
• Edward Ford
• Andrew Frow-Jones
• Amilia Gillies
• Kimberly Glassman
• Megan Graham
• David Grant
• Lucy Harrison
• Sarah Hinds
• Mark Hitchins
• Fran Holmes
• Matthew Hurst
• Rebecca Jaffri
• Paul Kelly
• Eva Kemenade
• Lou Khalfaoui
• Ian Lacey
• Harikesh Ladwa
• Mary-Jannet Leith
• Michael Lipiner
• Jessica Lloyd
• Carrie Long
• Amy Longmuir
• Arisa Loomba
• Deanna Lyn Cook
• Cameron Maclean
• Daniel Mazhindu
• Phoebe McDonnell
• Catherine Meredith
• Katherine Milliken
• James Moffatt
• Anna Molnar
• Ben Morris
• Brett Morritt
• Victoria Myhand
• Shankar Nair
• Ellis Naylor
• Yacine Ndao
• Joshua Newmark
• Tanner Ogle
• Megan Palmer
• Odile Liliana Panetta
• Thomas Parkinson
• Jen Pearce
• Aneirin Pendragon
• Rowan Powell
• Carl Julius Reim
• Clément Renault
• Pilar Requejo de Lamo
• Joseph Rix
• Bonnie Robinson
• Alana Rogers
• Brian Roper
• Andrew Sage
• Samapan Saha
• Alba Sanz Alvarez
• Luke Stephenson
• Kieran Stigant
• Eleanor Strangways
• Jonathan Tickle
• Christopher Toole
• Rebecca Tyson
• Alexandra Ward
• Alexandra Watson Jones
• Mark Wilson
• Alex Worsfold
• Morag Wright
• Guangxia Xu

HEADER IMAGE: Peasant Couples Dancing, 1580–1600, Johann Theodor de Bry, Netherlandish, after Sebald Beham Germany, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.

Allocation of research funding is central to the Society’s work of supporting historians and historical research.

In 2023 the Society has awarded £110,085 in funding to historians through open competitions, generously assisted by partner organisations and donors. In 2023-24, the Society is continuing to develop and extend its funding programmes for historians, within and outside Higher Education, and at at all career stages.

Full details of the Society’s Research Funding programmes are available here. The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes with closing dates of Friday 7 June 2024 and 6 September 2024. For further information on each programme, eligibility and how to apply please follow the links below.

• Postgraduate Research Support Grants – for History students (who are Postgraduate Members of the Royal Historical Society), currently studying for a Masters degree or PhD. Awards of either £500 or £1000 to support specified research activities. Next closing date for applications: Friday 7 June 2024.
• Early Career Research Support Grants – for early career historians (historians who are within 5 years of having submitted their PhD in a historical subject). Applicants must also be members of the Royal Historical Society. Awards of either £500 or £1000 to support specified research activities. Next closing date for applications: Friday 7 June 2024.
• Martyn Lynn Scholarships in African History – to assist a postgraduate researcher of African history. The Scholarship is worth £1,500 and is open to Postgraduate Members of the Royal Historical Society. Next closing date for applications: Friday 6 September 2024.

Details of further funding calls, including for the Society’s Centenary and Marshall PhD Fellowships, 2024-25, will also be released later in April 2024.

Applicants for Royal Historical Society funding must be members of the Society, with exceptions for several Postgraduate grants. To find out how to become a Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member or Postgraduate Member, please see our Join Us page.

Enquiries concerning these, and other RHS Research Funding programmes, please contact: administration@royalhistsoc.org.

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At its latest meeting on 3 February 2023, the RHS Council elected 44 Fellows, 32 Associate Fellows, 40 Members and 41 Postgraduate Members, a total of 157 people newly associated with the Society. We welcome them all.

The majority of the new Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a very wide range of fields; but also include museum curators, librarians, heads of learned societies, teachers heritage consultants, and independent researchers and writers. The Society is an international community of historians and our latest intake includes Fellows from seven countries: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, the UK and United States.

Our latest intake includes a number of historians working outside History departments, in cognate disciplines in higher education (on this occasion, Art History, Library and Literary Studies, Musicology, Philosophy and Theology): a reminder that the Fellowship is open to all whose research provides a scholarly contribution to historical knowledge.

The new Associate Fellows include not only early career historians in higher education but also historians with professional and private research interests drawn from journalism, conservation, libraries and archives, public and community history and the diplomatic service.

The new Members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals employed in universities, and as civil servants, teachers, librarians and lawyers – together with independent and community historians. Our new Postgraduate Members are studying for higher degrees in History, or related subjects, at 27 different universities in the UK, Canada, Italy and the United States. All those newly elected to the Fellowship and Membership bring a valuable range of expertise and experience to the Society.

February 2023 sees the admission of our seventh set of Associate Fellows and Postgraduate Members — two membership categories introduced in late 2021. These changes to membership (about which you can read more here) enable more historians to join the fellowship, and facilitate more focused support for RHS members at the start of their careers.

New Fellows and Members are elected at regular intervals through the year. The current application round is open and runs to Monday 10 April 2023, with the next closing date after this being Monday 5 June 2023. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member); benefits of membership; deadlines for applications throughout 2023; and how to apply, are available here.

New Fellows, elected February 2023

• Paul Campbell
• Ian Campbell
• Debbie Challis
• Peter Collinge
• Roxana Coman
• Joseph Cronin
• Anthony Crowley
• Ben Dew
• Elena Draghici-Vasilescu
• Jane Draycott
• Noelle Dückmann Gallagher
• Jonathan Durrant
• Laura Eastlake
• Rob Ellis
• Stefan Fisher-Høyrem
• Darren Freebury-Jones
• Jane Freeland
• Alison Garden
• Jamie Gianoutsos
• Benjamin Guyer
• Trevor Herbert
• Laurence Johnson
• Jennifer Keating
• Rachel Kiddey
• Kevin Killeen
• Liam Lewis
• David Magalhães
• Ewen Misha
• Teresa O’Doherty
• Elodie Paillard
• Hugh Pattenden
• David Reagles
• Alexander Rose
• Pamela Scully
• Neil Tarrant
• Misha Teramura
• Alun Thomas
• Gyorgy Toth
• Colin Trodd
• Mark Vickers
• Tim Welch
• Philip Wood
• Eve Worth
• David Worthington

New Associate Fellows, elected February 2023

• Tayo Agunbiade
• Iram Ahmad
• Artemis Alexiou
• Krysten Blackstone
• Nicoletta Bruno
• Eddie Chaloner
• Danielle Claybrook
• Paul Crawford
• Christian Cuthbert
• Clayton Davis
• Scott de Groot
• Nicolo Ferrari
• Iker Itoiz Ciaurriz
• Terry Kilburn
• Michael Leek
• Peter Lythe
• William Mitchell
• Benjamin Morris
• Steve Ngo
• Daniel O’Brien
• Patrick O’Connor
• David Olvera Ayes
• Patrick B. Poland
• Casey Raeside
• Rose Roberto
• Elisabeth Salje
• Petros  Spanou
• Harry Spillane
• Elin Tomos
• Ben Walsh
• Nicola Williams
• Lauren Young

New Members, elected February 2023

• Ernesto Juan Anaya
• Loraine Banner
• Gaverne Bennett
• Eleanor Braithwaite
• Jocelyn Cash
• Felix Cheah
• Oliver Clark
• Colin Coates
• Michela Cocolin
• Patrick Daigneault
• Mark Diamond
• Lindsay Ditkofsky
• Jennifer Ehrlich
• Eghosa Ekhator
• Jack Fairweather
• Mercy Fowler
• Tracey Gaitt
• Kyle Glover
• Tadhg Goodison
• Michael Hardman
• David Harvey
• Jens Hepper
• Samantha Hook
• Rongqi Li
• Nicolaus Martin
• Shelley Murphy
• Martin Pitts
• Edward Pryke
• Carol Quentin-Hicks
• David Rodenko
• John Sharman
• Manish Shrivastava
• Kelly Smith
• Ines Sousa
• Isarum Sriyingyong
• Andrés Urbano
• Susan Ward
• Nick Wood
• Jiarui Wu
• ChitShing Wu

New Postgraduate Members, elected February 2023

• Chloe Atkinson
• Phillip Baranick
• Sam Brady
• Emily Chambers
• Yi-Ying Chao
• Thomas Collins
• Helen Corlett
• David Cowan
• Calum Cunningham
• Shaun Cushley
• Raja Venkata Krishna Dandamudi
• Camilla de Koning
• Lewis Driver
• Howard Francis
• Lavinia Gambini
• Dionysios Giatras
• Hannah Gibbons
• Jasper Heeks
• Nausheen Hoosein
• Rebecca Irvine
• Nigel Jenkins
• Scott Keir
• Graham Kerr
• Emma Marshall
• Kay Rawson
• Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson
• Rosaria Sgueglia
• Pritam Singh
• David Spruce
• Jois Stansfield
• Ben Stemper
• Lily Tekseng
• Sara Tenneson
• Tiéphaine Thomason
• Katharine Waldron
• Nathan Websdale
• Rowan Whitcomb
• Eleanor Whitehead
• Tadeusz Wojtych
• Tsz Ho Wong
• Emma Wordsworth

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We are very pleased to announce publication of the new-look 2022 volume of the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (volume 32, sixth series). The latest volume contains 11 articles and an Introduction from the Society’s President, Emma Griffin.

The 2022 volume includes a number of changes for the journal being the first:

• to be edited by an external editorial team, led by the journal’s co-editors, Dr Harshan Kumarasingham (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Kate Smith (University of Birmingham)
• to ‘open up’ the journal to include articles submitted by historians for consideration; this replaces the journal’s former policy, established in 1872, of limiting articles to those first delivered as lectures or papers to the Society
• to be published in paperback print (as well as online), and to include a new design and cover illustration. This year’s cover — ‘Elephant and man’, by an unknown Burmese artist (1897 © The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) — illustrates Jonathan Saha’s article in the volume: ‘Accumulations and Cascades: Burmese Elephants and the Ecological Impact of British Imperialism’.

Publication of the 2022 volume also marks the 150th anniversary of the first volume of Transactions, which was published in November 1872. You can read more of the journal’s early years and development in Emma Griffin’s introductory essay, ‘An Anniversary and New Departure: Transactions, 1872–2022′.

To mark the 150th anniversary of the Transactions, and the changes introduced in 2022, please join us for a panel discussion, ‘Futures for the History Journal: Reflections and Projections’, at 5pm GMT on Tuesday 6 December. An international panel of historians, editors, digital innovators and publishers will discuss possible futures for the History journal, along with insights from an online audience. Booking for this event is now open.

Contributing to Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Submissions to Transactions are welcome from historians at any time. As a ‘generalist’ journal, Transactions welcomes content covering all aspects of the global past, and is especially keen to receive articles reflecting interdisciplinary collaboration and new forms of historical practice. The editors also welcome a range of article formats, including shorter form articles, roundtables and statements on research methods and pedagogy in the profession, within and beyond the higher education sector.

Further information on the journal, and how to submit article for review, is available here.

New articles are published online soon after acceptance via the FirstView platform of Cambridge University Press. Articles then appear each November in the annual print volume of Transactions. The next volume (vol. 1, seventh series) will be published in November 2023.

Fellows and Members of the Royal Historical Society receive Transactions as a member benefit. All those requesting the print edition of TRHS (2022) will receive this by post from Cambridge University Press in late November / early December 2022.

The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce details of its 2024 events programme.

The series includes the launch of a new partnership between the Society and the German Historical Institute, London to promote research in global history. We are delighted that the inaugural RHS/GHIL Lecture will be given by Clare Anderson (Leicester) on Tuesday 23 January 2024 on the subject of ‘Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism: Aftermaths of Penal Transportation in the British Empire’. Booking for online attendance of this lecture is now available.

Clare’s lecture is followed, on Thursday 1 February, with the first RHS Lecture of 2024: ‘Charting Authority after Empire: Documentary Culture and Political Legitimacy in Post-Carolingian Europe’, with Levi Roach (Exeter). Levi’s lecture takes place at Mary Ward House, London, and online, and registration is now open.

Later RHS Lectures will be given, in May, by Julia Laite (Birkbeck) and, in September, Caroline Pennock (Sheffield). In July, we are very pleased to welcome Peter Frankopan (Oxford) to deliver the Society’s 2024 Prothero Lecture, and in November to host Janina Ramirez for the Society’s annual Public History Lecture, in association with Gresham College.

On 13 March 2024, the Society visits historians at the universities of York and York St John and jointly hosts a public lecture with Fay Bound Alberti (King’s College London). This is followed in May with a visit to Brunel University which includes a partnership lecture from Corinne Fowler (Leicester).

Other events in 2024 include the Society’s annual conference, History and Archives in Practice, which is run jointly with The National Archives and the Institute of Historical Research. Taking place on 6 March, at Cardiff University, ‘HAP24’ will consider the preservation and legacy of archive collections. And on Tuesday 20 February we’re delighted to host ‘Finding the Funny in Public History’, an evening of conversation with the broadcaster and author Greg Jenner for which in-person and online booking is now open.

Details of these events are available in the events pages of the RHS website and will be advertised via social media and the Society’s weekly mailing to members. We’ll be adding further details and new events to our 2024 programme in the new year.

Listen again to Society events from 2023

Video and audio recordings of many of the Society’s events held in 2023 are also available via the RHS Events Archive.

• Sessions from 2023 include lectures by Brenda E. Stevenson (Oxford), on ‘Enslaved Black Life, Courtship and Marriage in the Antebellum South’ and John Gallagher (Leeds) on ‘Migrant Voices in the Multilingual City’.
• Panel discussions include ‘Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery: Debates, Legacies and New Directions for Research’ (June); ‘Writing and Publishing Trade History’ (with Yale University Press London, October) and ‘Black British History. Where Now, Where Next?’ (October).
• Training Workshops in 2023 include ‘Digital History and Collaborative Research: a Practitioners’ Roundtable’ (May) and ‘Scholarly Editing for Historians: An Introduction and Guide to Working with Primary Texts’ (July).