At its latest meeting on 21 November 2025, the RHS Council elected 58 Fellows, 30 Associate Fellows, 51 Members and 95 Postgraduate Members, a total of 234 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 ten countries: Finland, France, Ireland, Israel, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, 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 44 different universities in the UK, Germany, Hungary, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ukraine 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 rounds are open and run to 15 December 2025 and 9 March 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, elected November 2025
- Peter Auger
- Melanie Backe-Hansen
- Poonam Bala
- Gad Barnea
- Richard Baxell
- John Bennett
- Stephen Bowman
- Leanne Calvert
- Alessio Maria Camarda Signorino
- Erica Canela
- Esther Chadwick
- Adam Claasen
- Meaghan Clarke
- Joseph Cochran
- Philip Constable
- Camillia Cowling
- Sarah Crook
- Nick Cumming
- Angela Davis
- Johannes Wilfried Dillinger
- Callum Easton
- Joanne Edge
- Daniel Frost
- Natalee Garrett
- George Gilbert
- George Gosling
- Scott Hames
- Hannah Holtschneider
- Xuelei Huang
- Laura Incollingo
- Donna Jackson
- Sadie Jarrett
- Anthony Michael Kreis
- ka Chun Lin
- Sara Lodge
- Robert Mayhew
- Gerard McCann
- Ben Mechen
- Darren Middleton
- Ian Miller
- Joseph Mujere
- Kate Murphy
- Kevin Noles
- Ana María Otero-Cleves
- Paris Papamichos Chronakis
- Roger Pearce
- Vincent Roy-Di Piazza
- Helen Rutherford
- Jenny Shaw
- Lisa Smith
- Marcin Starzyński
- David Turner
- Sean Vanatta
- Annabel Venning
- Emily Vine
- Nicola Whyte
- Brendan Wolfe
- Matthew Woolgar
New Associate Fellows, elected November 2025
- Mark Allen
- Robyn Atcheson
- Emma Bastin
- Kathryn Bruce
- Wilson Chan
- Adebusola Dada
- Susie Deedigan
- Lucie Bea Dutton
- Erwin Erhardt, III
- Uziel González-Aliaga
- Lorraine Grimes
- Haley Guepet
- Rebekah Hodgkinson
- Musa Igrek
- Andrew Lewis
- Jacinta Mallon
- Michael McLaughlin
- Yoko Onodera
- Piotr Potocki
- Barney Rowe
- Diki Sherpa
- Monja Stahlberger
- Angela Wells
- Bethan Winter
- Malika Zehni
- Pauline Zerla
New Members, elected November 2025
- The Prince Andrew Adé yí miká Adégbilé
- Martin Belgrove
- Lily Bentley
- Swapnil Bhagat
- Ethan Bradman
- David Brown
- Ken Checinski
- Henry Chorley
- Benjamin Davidi
- Chinonso Ezenwe
- Richard Farndale
- Ben Field
- Giovanni Maria Fiorilla di Santa Croce
- Simon Flamia
- Isabella Flynn
- Fadel Hodroje
- Alison Hunt
- Ava Jones
- Emma Latham
- Harold Law
- Jo Levitt
- Tracey Loke Hassell
- Crawford Macdonald
- Ariane Mak
- Tom Mckellar-Smythe
- Marco Montaña
- Stuart Morris
- Justin Kennedy Muoghara
- Attila Nagy
- Mark Otiende
- Renu Pant
- Caroline Petherick
- Jack Pilcher
- Scott Place
- Sidney Pycroft
- Joseph Rawlings
- David Regan
- Robert Robinson
- Niq Ruud
- Delzar Sadiq
- Anita Sethi
- Amie Sillito
- Susan Soyinka
- Peter Trenbath
- Heather Tweed
- Emmanuel Were
- Orestes Yatskuliak
New Postgraduate Members, elected November 2025
- Harun Ali
- Mathew Ayodele
- Joshua Baker-Cox
- Darcie Benoit
- Nico Blackstock
- Avonlea Bowthorpe
- Juliette Bretan
- Debra Brock
- Katie Burke
- Andrew Burns
- Andrew Byrne
- Rose Cameron
- Lesley Carter
- Emilia Castelao
- Emily Chung
- Mara-Elena Ciuntu
- Kevin Cleary
- Shantelle Clement
- Lauren Cole
- John Concagh
- Mia Condron Asquith
- Amy Cottrill
- Kate Cross
- Sujato Datta
- Catherine Dehaut
- Caroline Devonport
- Joseph DiDomenico
- Simone Edgar Holmes
- Bill Edmonds
- Jenny Folsom
- Frederick Fossey-Warren
- Christine Gerwin
- William Gordon
- Ross Hamilton
- Ryuya Hashiguchi
- Rebecca Hawkins
- Karl Hector
- David Higgins
- Ellis Hinton
- Andrii Hrebinnyk
- Sebastian Hurtado
- Cian Ireland
- Mark Jamieson
- Nicola Johnson
- Milly Jonas
- Mark Jones
- Maarten Jonker
- Howon Jung
- Nadzieja Kolodziejski
- Joanna Lastun
- Marcin Lewicki
- Rhys Lewis
- William Lewis
- Yuang Marcus Liu
- Daniel Lucas
- Ila Manish
- William Matthews
- Alfonso Menanno UE
- Amy Meyer
- Madeleine Miller
- Elaine Mitchell
- Iago Mora Arcas
- Shelby Neuhauser
- Claire Ó Nualláin
- Aaron Oliver
- Petrina Oliver
- Tina Onur
- Taylan Paksoy
- James Parker
- Frédéric Perron-Welch
- Roslyn Potter
- Guillaume Proffit
- James Richardson
- Rajosmita Roy
- Asmita Sarkar
- John Schaefer
- Tanishka Sethi
- Saundrie Shaw
- Jane Skelding
- Katie Southward
- Pauline Standley
- Anna Ulrika Stark
- Lei Tang
- Plamen Todorov
- Adefolatomiwa Toye
- Rae Tunstall
- Elizabeth Turner
- Jackson van Uden
- Luke Walker
- Tianwei Wang
- Ireland Wright
- Penny Young
- Arif Zaman
- Qianyi Zhang
- Yifei Zhang
HEADER IMAGE: Hendrick Avercamp, c.1608, ‘Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters’, Rijksmuseum, public domain