At its latest meeting on 2 May 2025, the RHS Council elected 85 Fellows, 53 Associate Fellows, 78 Members and 101 Postgraduate Members, a total of 337 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 eleven countries: Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Poland, South Africa, 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 68 different universities in the UK, Australia, Canada, France, India, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the United States, and Zambia.
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 26 May and 11 August 2025. Further details on RHS Fellowship and Membership categories (Fellow, Associate Fellow, Member and Postgraduate Member); benefits of membership; deadlines for applications; and how to apply, are available here.
New Fellows, elected May 2025
- Samuel Agbamu
- Diane Marie Amann
- Kerri Andrews
- Ed Armston-Sheret
- William Baker
- Mou Banerjee
- Yaqoob Khan Bangash
- Michael Barkham
- Vanessa Berridge
- Jennifer Bond
- Claire Burridge
- Jessamy Carlson
- Alison Chand
- Juan Cobo Betancourt
- Christopher Cowell
- Poppy Cullen
- Julie deGraffenried
- Clare Downham
- Pamela Edwards
- Jeremy Filet
- Paul Finkelman
- Maria Fragoulaki
- Ian Friel
- Kevin Geddes
- Laura Gelfand
- Georgios Giannakopoulos
- Marianne Gilchrist
- John Gilmour
- Roberto Gonzalez Arana
- Christopher Grey
- Bendor Grosvenor
- Rachel Haworth
- Amanda Herbert
- Benjamin Hoffmann
- Melanie Holihead
- Poul Holm
- Jarrod Hore
- Henry Irving
- Felicity Jensz
- Amit K. Suman
- Yoshinori Kasai
- Nicki Kindersley
- Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
- Vicky Long
- Eve MacDonald
- Neil MacGillivray
- Malcolm MacLean
- Alan Macniven
- Roger McDermott
- Marc Milner
- Claire Morelon
- Colm Murphy
- Julia Neville
- Patrick O’Connor
- Linda Parker
- Chris Perry
- Stavroula Pipyrou
- Margarite Poulos
- Lindsay Powell
- Sonia Purnell
- Tyson Retz
- Iain Robertson
- Terry Robinson
- Michael Robinson
- Sam Rose
- William Rosenau
- Catherine Ross
- Lucie Ryzova
- Priyasha Saksena
- Tony See
- Sishuwa Sishuwa
- Tom Smith
- Fiona Smyth
- Gareth Stansfield OBE
- Victor Stater
- Nigel Tallis
- Richard Taws
- Robert Tomczak
- Shaun Tougher
- Philippa Tudor
- Natale Vacalebre
- Dominik Waßenhoven
- Martin Watts
- Vanessa Wilkie
- Przemyslaw Wiszewski
New Associate Fellows, elected May 2025
- John Abernethy
- Pier Paolo Alfei
- Scott Allsop
- Ayebawaduanyu Benjamin
- Gregory Billam
- Amy Blaney
- George Brocklehurst
- Francesco Bromo
- Robert Brown
- Simon Buck
- Gordon Campbell
- Chris Cassells
- Adam Cook
- Rachel Coombes
- Sarah Elizabeth Cox
- Paula Dobrowolski
- Thomas Dobson
- Anni Donaldson
- Charlotte Eaton
- Chloe Emmott
- George Entwistle
- Meryl Faiers
- Finola Finn
- Karima Gaci
- Daniella Gonzalez
- Leonard Hodges
- Dimitra Kardakari
- Rhian Elinor Keyse
- Marzia Maccaferri
- Yu Hon Mak
- Connor McBain
- Daniel McDonald
- Niki Miles
- Keith Milne
- Andrew Morris
- Lorraine Murray
- Fatims Naveed
- Des O’Rawe
- Oliver Parken
- Carlo Alberto Petruzzi
- Serin Quinn
- Morgan Robinson
- Robert Runacres
- Akuressa Sanjeewa
- Martin Sorowka
- Francesca Strobino
- Chaojing Sun
- Nathaniel Tapley
- Charles Trumpess
- Alice van den Bosch
- Camille Vo Van Qui
- Anna Walsh
- Haoyang Zhao
New Members, elected May 2025
- Mark Acton
- Rzhwan Amin
- Gill Appleby
- Nick Austin
- Akinola Awodeyi-Akinsehinwa
- Rawaa Barnes
- Douglas Beard
- Charles Bell
- Matthew Bezant
- Thomas Birkett
- Jilian Bissett
- Steven Bright
- Hannah Brown
- Danusia Car
- Anthony Cherrington
- S Phani Chitti
- Jeremy Coles
- Thomas Cowan
- Mike Crew
- Freya Cushman
- Gerard Daly
- Emily Downs
- Ioana Dumitrica
- Gordon Fisher
- Rahul G K
- Francisco Javier Gamboa-Felix
- lorna Goodwin
- James Grant Peterkin
- Christopher Green
- Sven Gustafsson
- Poly Hajipieris
- John Holberg
- Rebecca Hutchison
- Charles Ijuye-Dagogo
- Mohsan Jaffery
- Fairooz Jahan
- Jill James
- Thapasya Jayaraj
- Royston Jones
- Benjamin Keirle
- James Knight
- Sai Sravan Koparthi B S Venkat
- Mark Lindley-Highfield of Ballumbie Castle
- Matthew MacDonald
- Heather Mayall
- Penny McCormick
- Bikash Meher
- Owen Miller
- Cody Mitchell
- Ananthakrishnan Palanikumar
- John Pascale
- Morgan Patrick
- Valentin-Sorin Păun
- Saumak Podder
- Daniel Porteous
- Sharon Lisa Rhodes
- Laura Roberts
- Noel Sadac
- Eleanor Scott
- Jessica Secmezsoy-Urquhart
- Gurjap Singh
- Jean Spenceley
- Rhianna Swift
- Gladhys Elliona Syahutari
- Joseph Terry
- Oliver Thums
- Vlad Tudorache
- Igor Uboldi
- Steven Wade
- Sandra Wainwright
- Jerry Walton
- Michael Ward
- James Webb
- Jonathan Welford-Carroll
- Andrew Whalley
- Adam Williams
- Andrew Young
- David Young
New Postgraduate Members, elected May 2025
- Azrin Afrin
- Swadha Agrawal
- Ana Ines Aldazabal
- Jobial Alex
- Marcus Andreopoulos
- Amanda Ariss
- Gideon Arthur Ofori
- Sabrina Autenrieth
- Natalie Barnard
- Katy Bennett
- Angela Billings
- James Blewett
- Emily Bolton
- Andrew Peter Bramwell
- Yvonne Campbell
- Peter Carroll
- Hunter Christensen
- Denise Connor
- Megan Cook
- João Gabriel Covolan Silva
- Andrew Craig
- Brian Curragh
- Anthony Curtis
- João Custódio Aldegalega
- Alice Daniel
- Adrian Davis
- Yusuke Deki
- Luke Doherty
- Madeleine Duperouzel
- Lisa Edwards
- Laura Elliott
- Cath Fincher
- Eilidh Finlayson
- Haroon Forde
- Ferreira Gaëlle
- Santiago Garcia Pardo
- Raphaëlle Goyeau
- Stephen Graham
- Corrie Green
- David Green
- Joel Griffett
- Amy Hall
- Abby Hammond
- Alice Hastings-Bass
- Jasper Hawkes
- Jordan Healy
- Bhadrajee Hewage
- Elizabeth Hobbs
- Susan Homewood
- Dee Hutchison
- Elizabeth Irvine
- Henry Jennings
- Stephanie Joyner
- Roslin Kerr
- Mohammed Khan
- Abdul Sabur Kidwai
- Abi Kingsnorth
- Larissa Kraft
- Navas Kuruva Chalil
- Jürg Lieberherr
- Sandra Liwanowska
- Patrick Lumumba Olang
- Boran lyu
- Scott Macfie
- Buchule Madikizela
- Emma Mapp
- Francesca Costanza Mascanzoni
- Emma Mason
- William McCall
- Jodie Merritt
- Nicola Miles
- Emma Mitchell
- Lenny Monaghan
- Rachel Monsey
- David Morris
- Sonja Mues
- Caitlin Murray
- Alessia Pannese
- Donna Petgrave
- Camilla Portesani
- Jonathan Privett-Mendoza
- Jean-Marc Pruit
- Jahanara Rafique
- Chandima Rathnamali
- Corinna Rayner
- Hannah Robertson
- John Ross
- Fabio Sappino
- Richard Schlag
- Benjamin Seeberger
- Dominique Simpson
- Khemendra Singh
- Philip Stenberg
- Carly Suri
- Eden Swimer
- Stefano Glenn Torrigiotti
- Catherine Venables
- Michelle Walsh
- Rebecca Wilkieson
- Karen Willis
- Matthew J Wong
HEADER IMAGE: Dish with scholar by a lotus pond, China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), Wanli mark and period (1573–1620)