Since it was founded in 1868 the RHS has become the foremost society in the UK working with professional historians and advancing the scholarly study of the past. We are a learned society with charitable status that is increasingly at the forefront of policy debates about the study of history. We work closely with the Historical Association, the body that leads on history in schools, the Institute of Historical Research, a central hub for the provision of research resources, and History UK (HE), a council of representatives of UK university history departments.
On Thursday 16 April 2026, the Royal Historical Society co-hosted the annual 'History and Archives in Practice' conference. This year’s conference organised...
In this post, Rowan Thompson introduces his new book — 'Organised Militarism in Interwar Britain. The Navy League and the Air League of the British Empire'...
In this post, Jeremy Goh — a PhD student from the University of Warwick — comments on his recent experience of archival work in China. As Jeremy suggests,...
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