RHS Elections 2025: Insights into the Society’s Council and the role of Councillors

by | 23 Jul 2025 | General, RHS Work

    Each year the Royal Historical Society holds elections to appoint three new members to its Council. The Council is the Society’s governing body, with responsibility for the objectives and work of the RHS. The election round for 2025 is now open, with an...

Royal Historical Society invites applications for new governance and journal roles

by | 31 Aug 2021 | General, RHS Publications, RHS Work

We invite applications from RHS Fellows for four posts central to the Society’s governance and development as a learned society.  Two are Officer roles on the Council, the Society’s governing body: Honorary Secretary and Secretary for Professional...

Meet the RHS Council – Professor Simon MacLean

by | 14 Apr 2021 | RHS Work

In the third in a short series of blog posts, we asked some of the new RHS councillors and office holders to introduce themselves. Simon MacLean is a Professor of History at the University of St Andrews. His research focuses on the Carolingian Empire and its successor...

Meet the RHS President – Professor Emma Griffin

by | 01 Feb 2021 | General

On 27 November 2020, Professor Emma Griffin formally began her term as the new President of the Royal Historical Society. Here, Emma reflects on taking up this position in a period of great uncertainty for the historical profession. It was just over thirteen months...

Meet the RHS Council – Rebekah Lee

by | 26 Jan 2021 | RHS Work

For a new blog series to start 2021, we asked some of the new RHS councillors and office holders to introduce themselves… Dr Rebekah Lee is a Senior Lecturer at the History Department, Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests concern the social...