RHS News

 

The membership of the History Sub-Panel for REF2029 was announced on Thursday 4 September.

Sub-panel chair

• Jonathan Morris, University of Hertfordshire

Sub-panel deputy chair

• Claire Langhamer, School of Advanced Study, University of London

Sub-panel members (criteria setting and assessment phases)

• Frances Andrews, University of St Andrews
• James Daybell, University of Plymouth
• Paul Corthorn, Queen’s University Belfast
• Phillipp Schofield, Aberystwyth University / Prifysgol Aberystwyth
• Ruth Atherton, University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
• Sadiah Qureshi, University of Manchester
• Stacey Hynd, University of Exeter

Sub-panel member (assessment phase)

• Alexander Watson, Goldsmiths, University of London
• Barbara Bombi, University of Kent
• Jagjeet Lally, University College London (Joint with Sub Panel 25, Area Studies)
• Rosemary Sweet, University of Leicester

Sub Panel Secretary

• Nick Mithen, University of Hull

 

To accompany release of the Sub-Panel membership, the Chair and Deputy Chair — Jonathan Morris and Claire Langhamer — have issued the following statement:

We are delighted to be able to announce the names of the first recruits to the History Sub-Panel. We look forward to working with such a talented and committed set of panellists.

These appointments are a subset of the full Sub-Panel and will assist in the criteria setting phase of the exercise, developing the final shape of the guidelines for unit submissions to the History element of the overall framework. We were mindful of the need for representativeness and balance within the sub-panel, be that across sub-disciplines, subject areas, chronology, institution type, geographical location, career stage, and protected characteristics. We expect to appoint a ‘user member’ for the criteria-setting phase shortly.

We have also made a small number of additional panel appointments to secure critical experience and contacts within key elements of the history community, but will conduct a far more extensive recruitment phase in the year prior to the exercise itself. This will be informed by the submission intentions expressed by Units indicating the nature of the CKUs (Contributions to Knowledge and Understanding) that they expect to enter into the evaluation. Recruitment for this subsequent phase will again be open to all, including those who applied for membership this time round.

Further details are available on the REF2029 website with a listing of Sub-Panels for Main Panel D (Arts and Humanities) here.

 

This week the Society publishes the latest title in its New Historical Perspectives series: Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales, by Andrew McTominey.

The building of reservoirs in England and Wales was key to urban growth across the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, with the management of waterworks projects closely tied to the social and economic fortunes of rural areas, as well as the treatment of urban populations.

 

 

Drawing on methods from environmental history, cultural history and historical geography, Waterscapes explores the multiple and long-term impacts of reservoir construction and management in rural England and Wales from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. It examines how reservoirs transformed the rural environment, the management of the urban-rural hinterland, the development of cultural landscapes, the expansion of novel leisure activities, and the social impact on local communities.

Andrew’s new book Incorporates case studies from Leeds’s Washburn Valley, Liverpool’s Vyrnwy Reservoir and Birmingham’s Elan Reservoir. It offers a comparative approach, highlighting commonalities and differences in waterworks management across the country, thereby transforming our understanding of the national water industry during this period, contemporary attitudes to the environment, and the identities – civic, gender and professional – that were intertwined with these waterscapes.

Waterscapes is published in Open Access in pdf download and Manifold reading editions and in hard and paperback print (£24.99).

To accompany publication, on 28 August Andrew also writes about his new book for the Society’s blog, Historical Transactions.

Our thanks to the Bodleian Library, Oxford, for supporting Open Access publication of this title in the New Historical Perspectives series.

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About the ‘New Historical Perspectives’ book series

 

Waterscapes is the 23rd titles in the Society’s New Historical Perspectives series for early career historians, published with University of London Press and supported by the Institute of Historical Research and Economic History Society.

The series publishes monographs and edited collections by early career historians on all chronologies and histories, worldwide. Contracted authors receive mentoring and an author workshop to develop their manuscript before its final submission.

All titles in the series are published in hard and paperback print and Open Access (as pdf downloads and Manifold reading editions) with costs covered by University of London Press, the Royal Historical Society and partners. Forthcoming titles include:

• Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940, by Gareth Roddy (October 2025)
• Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow, by Rachael Harkes (November 2025)

For more on current and forthcoming titles in the series, for 2025, please see here.

 

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HEADER IMAGE: Ladybower Reservoir, Upper Derwent Valley, Derbyshire, UK, iStock Alexey_Fedoren

 

Each year the Royal Historical Society undertakes a programme of visits to historians in UK universities. Visits are an opportunity to meet academic historians, researchers and students: to discuss topics of common interest and concern and to hear how the Society can best support the historian community.

Visits are also an important part of the Society’s advocacy work, providing opportunities to meet with university managers and demonstrate the contribution of historians working across the university.

Each Visit concludes with a public guest lecture, with speakers chosen by the host institution. Lectures are followed by a reception which is chance for audience members to meet with historians from a department, and for members of the Society’s Council to meet with RHS Fellows and Members from the locality.

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Following the Society’s visit to the Cornwall campus of the University of Exeter (May 2025), three further visits will take place this autumn:

17-18 September at the University of Aberdeen, with a guest lecture by Professor Matthew J. Smith (UCL): ‘Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories’

The lecture, which takes place at 5.30pm on Wednesday 17 September, is open to all with booking available here.

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22 October at the University of Suffolk, Ipswich, with a guest lecture by Professor Tim Grady (Chester): ‘Unravelling the Tapestry of Death: Britain and the Memory of the Two World Wars’.

The lecture — which takes place at 5.30pm on Wednesday 22 October, at The Hold, home of Suffolk Archives — is open to all, with booking available here.

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10 December, jointly at the Institute of Education and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to consider working as a historian outside of a History department.

The public guest lecture for this visit will be given by Dr Heather Ellis (Department of Education, University of Sheffield). Details of this event will be circulated shortly.

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The Society is currently planning its programme of Visits for 2026. This will begin, on Wednesday 18 February at Sheffield Hallam University with a guest lecture by Professor David Stack (Reading). Further information on this and other visits in 2026 will be made available later in the year.

Public lectures are open to all and we look forward to meeting you at these events and the receptions that follow.

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The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint a Membership and Office Administrator (0.8 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and develop the Society’s activities with a particular focus on membership and research funding.

• Job Title: Membership and Office Administrator (part-time)
• Contract: 0.8 FTE (4 days a week). Fixed Term. 12 months in the first instance, with potential for extension to permanent
• Salary: UCL Non-clinical pay scale: spine point 16, currently £31,904 including London weighting at full time, pro-rated to £25,523 at 0.8FTE
• Location: Hybrid – remote and with some attendance in the RHS Office (UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT).
• Application closing date: 23:59 BST, Monday 8 September 2025
• Start Date: As soon as possible after interviews; interviews are expected to take place in week commencing Monday 6 October 2025

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Further details of the Membership and Office Administrator role are available here, with applications made via the RHS Jobs Portal.

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We seek a highly capable Membership and Office Administrator to support the work of the Society’s professional Office based at University College London. The role will focus primarily on supporting and communicating with the Society’s extensive membership, which largely comprises practising historians in higher education and other sectors, as well as prospective members, applicants for the Society’s extensive research funding programme, and members of the public.

The role holder will report to the Membership and Programmes Manager and will also assist in the running of the Society’s research funding schemes. This is a hybrid position which supports home / remote working as the predominant model. As part of a small Office team, the post holder will in addition assist with the administration and efficient running of the Office on a daily basis. The Society offers an employer contributor pension of 12% and a friendly, supportive and highly professional working environment.

 

The Society is very pleased to announce publication of its latest Camden series volume: The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler.

This volume presents the surviving holograph correspondence of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots as a stand-alone edition for the first time. The 111 holograph letters (written in Margaret’s own hand) and 4 ‘hybrid’ letters (written by a scribe, with a postscript or subsection by Margaret herself) form an unprecedented epistolary archive, featuring the largest collection of holograph correspondence written in English or Scots of any medieval or early modern queen.

 

 

The letters chart Margaret’s life as a late medieval queen, including the challenges she faced in negotiating her dual identity as queen of Scots and an English princess, and her important role in Anglo-Scots politics and diplomacy in the early sixteenth century.

To mark publication of this important volume, the full text of The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541) is now available, free to read, via Cambridge University Press, until 30 September 2025.

The edition also provides a substantial Introduction which explores the archive of Margaret Tudor’s correspondence and a detailed biography, to enable readers to better understand the political and cultural context in which Margaret’s letters were originally written.

This new Camden edition also provides a handlist of Margaret’s remaining extant correspondence, which includes scribal letters, copies of original letters, and foreign language letters — the first time such a handlist has been published.

To accompany publication, the volume’s editor, Helen Newsome-Chandler, has also written for the Society’s blog, providing an introduction and guide to Margaret Tudor’s life and the collection.

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The online edition of The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541) is now available from Cambridge University Press. The print edition will be released later in August.

Full online access to all Camden Series titles is available to Fellows and Members of the Royal Historical Society as part of the Society’s member benefits.

This includes purchase of the print edition of the Holograph Letters (347pp) for the reduced price of £16. Fellows and Members of the Society who wish to purchase a print copy at this reduced rate should email: administration@royalhistsoc.org, providing their name and postal address, marking the email ‘Camden’.

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Camden volumes in 2025

The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541) is the second of three volumes in the Camden series to be published in 2025.

Other titles this year are The Papers of Admiral George Grey, edited by Michael Taylor (June 2025 and now available Open Access) and A Collector Collected: The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823, edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Aykan and Curtis Leung — which is published in November.

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Recent volumes in the Camden series

Other recent volumes in the series include:

• The Household Accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville, Lord and Lady Brooke, at Holborn and Warwick, 1640-1649, edited by Stewart Beale, Andrew Hopper and Ann Hughes (November 2024).
• Allen Leeper’s Letters Home, 1908–1912. An Irish-Australian at Edwardian Oxford, edited by David Hayton (July 2024).
• The Last Days of English Tangier. The Out-Letter Book of Governor Percy Kirke, 1681–1683, edited by John Childs (November 2023).
• La Prinse et mort du roy Richart d’Angleterre, and Other Works by Jehan Creton, edited and translated by Lorna A. Finlay (June 2023).

Introductions to these and other recent Camden volumes are available from their editors via the Society’s blog.

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About the Camden series

The Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series is one of the most prestigious and important collections of primary source material relating to British History, including the British empire and Britons’ influence overseas.

The Society (and its predecessor, the Camden Society) has since 1838 published scholarly editions of sources—making important, previously unpublished, texts available to researchers. Each volume is edited by specialist historians who provide an expert introduction and commentary.

The complete Camden Series now comprises over 385 volumes of primary source material, ranging from the early medieval to late-twentieth century Britain. The full series is available via Cambridge Journals Online, providing an extraordinarily rich conspectus of source material for British history as well as insights into the development of historical scholarship in the English speaking world.

Full online access to all Camden Series titles is available to all Fellows and Members of the Royal Historical Society as part of the Society’s Member Benefits.

The Camden Series is edited by Dr Richard Gaunt (University of Nottingham) and Professor Siobhan Talbott (Keele University). Richard and Siobhan welcome submissions for future Camden volumes. If you have a proposal for a Camden Society volume, please complete and submit the Camden Series Proposal Form and send your completed proposal to the Editors: camden.editors@royalhistsoc.org.

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HEADER IMAGE: An Engagement Portrait, traditionally identified as of Margaret Tudor, the Regent Albany and a man in royal livery. Oil on canvas. 84cm x 117 cm. Courtesy of the Bute Collection at Mount Stuart, detail.

 

Earlier this year, the Royal Historical Society launched a new strand of research funding to bring together historians working collaboratively across different sectors, including higher education, museums and archives, and public and community history.

The two new programmes — the Scouloudi Public History Grants and the Scouloudi Panel Grants — are made possible following a generous subvention to the Society by the Scouloudi Foundation.

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Scouloudi Public History Grants support innovative practice in public history and provide funding for defined projects by historians working together in and beyond higher education. In offering these grants, the Society seeks to encourage collaborative public history, and to provide necessary financial support for non-academic participants which is often unavailable through existing funding schemes.

Scouloudi Panel Grants support the formation of panels to present, in-person, research on a shared historical theme at an academic conference, or equivalent event, in history or a cognate discipline. The scheme supports the creation of panels, of up to four principal participants, whose formation would not otherwise have been possible, in their entirety, due to an absence of financial support.

In this way, the Society seeks to make possible collaborative conference participation and research dissemination at a time when budgets for event attendance and travel have been cut. The scheme also aims to support panel membership by independent historians with no access to funding for conference participation.

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The Society is pleased to announce the recipients of the first round of these two new award programmes:

Scouloudi Public History Grants, 2025-26

• Rachel Dishington (University of Nottingham) and Sarah Colborne (University of Nottingham Archives) , ‘Living and Working Along the Leen’
• Iqbal Singh (The National Archives) and Eleanor Newbigin (SOAS), ‘Participatory workshops on colonial history for historians in higher education, the GLAM sector and community history groups’
• Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Kate Crossley (Arkwright Society) , ‘Re-interpreting Florence Nightingale in Derbyshire’
• Rachel Delman (Oxford) and James Spellane (The Charterhouse), ‘London’s Watery Heritage: Co-producing New Knowledge about the Charterhouse Water Maps’

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Scouloudi Panel Grants, 2025-26

• ‘Commons and Communities: Celebrating Professor Andy Wood’, with speakers Lily R. Chadwick, Mark Hailwood, Susannah Ottaway and Steve Hindle: to enable Lily Chadwick (Woodbrooke Centre, Birmingham) to participate in the panel, to take place at the 2025 meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) in Montreal in November.
• ‘Continuities and Challenges: Women’s Politics and Activism in 1970s Britain’, with speakers Jessica White, Caitríona Beaumont, Ruth Davidson, Lyndsey Jenkins, and Laura Beers: to support members of the panel without alternative means of institutional financial support to participate in the panel, to take place at the 2025 meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) in Montreal in November.

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The next call for applications for the Society’s Scouloudi Public History and Panel Grants is expected to open in Spring 2026 for projects and conferences in 2026-27.

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HEADER IMAGE: Map of London, 1698 Wenceslaus Hollar (detail), public domain, Wikimedia Commons

 

We are deeply saddened to learn of the death, on Saturday, of Professor Peter Marshall, former Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London and President of the Royal Historical Society between 1996 and 2000.

Peter’s association with the Society spanned more than 50 years. Elected a Fellow in 1969, he served as a member of the Society’s Council between 1983 to 1987, thereafter becoming Vice President until November 1991. He returned to the Council in November 1996 as President and held this position for four years.

As President, Peter delivered four lectures on the theme of ‘Britain and the World in the Eighteenth Century’ which were subsequently published in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (1998-2001) and are now available free to read until 31 October 2025.

Peter’s academic career was spent at King’s College London where he was appointed an Assistant Lecturer in 1959, rising to Professor in 1978 and becoming Rhodes Professor of Imperial History in 1980. Peter’s term as RHS President came after his retirement from King’s in 1993. Though officially retired, Peter remained closely involved with King’s, teaching courses into the 2010s.

Peter’s association with the Society also continued after his Presidency, not least with his very generous provision of the annual RHS Marshall Fellowships to support early career researchers to complete a doctorate in history. The latest recipients — for the academic year 2024-25 — have recently completed their Fellowships, held at the Institute of Historical Research. Peter took great interest in the work of each Fellow and many academic careers have been enhanced, and many professional friendships established, thanks to Peter’s creation of this programme.

Peter’s research field was British imperial history, with a specialism in eighteenth-century British India. His work appears in more than 50 articles and chapters and numerous books which range from The Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1965) to Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies (2019). His final monograph will appear posthumously.

Peter’s many other contributions to scholarship include his editorship of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (1975-81); membership of the editorial committee for the Correspondence of Edmund Burke (1965–78), for which he co-edited volume 2 (1968); as an associate editor for the Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke (1976–2015), for which he edited four volumes; and editorship of the eighteenth-century volume of the Oxford History of the British Empire (1998).

Peter was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1998 and appointed a CBE for services to history in 2002.

Peter was a friend to many and a very generous host to members of the Society’s Council who enjoyed summer lunches in his garden. He will be very greatly missed.

2 September 2025: we are very grateful to Professor Peter Mandler for the following reflections on Peter’s contribution to the Royal Historical Society, both during and after his term as President. The tribute appears, from 2 September, on the RHS blog.

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IMAGE: Peter Marshall with Jinty Nelson (1942-2024) who succeeded Peter as President of the Royal Historical Society in November 2000.

 

A new article, published in the Society’s journal, Transactions, celebrates the scholarship of ‘Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles’.

The collection, edited by Alice Rio (King’s College London), gathers thirteen contributions by historians, friends, colleagues and/or students of Jinty’s, who were asked to choose their favourite article by her for an event held in Jinty’s memory on 15 January 2025 at King’s College London.

The chosen articles, arranged in chronological order, range from her 1977 study ‘On the Limits of the Carolingian Renaissance’, published in Studies in Church History, to ‘Charlemagne and Ravenna’, in Ravenna: Its role in Earlier Medieval Change and Exchange, a chapter in a 2016 collection edited by Jinty and Judith Herrin.

Contributors to this article include: Alice Rio, Stuart Airlie, Kate Cooper, Wendy Davies, Paul Fouracre, David Ganz, John Gillingham, Peter Heather, Judith Herrin, Henrietta Leyser, Julia M. H. Smith, Rachel Stone, and Ian N. Wood.

As Alice Rio writes in her introduction:

We offer this collection in print now for a wider audience not so much because it has any claim to be exhaustive or authoritative, but because taken all together these pieces seemed to add up to a useful retrospective on Jinty’s work, its wider context, and its impact on the field over the decades. We hope that, for those who know her work well already, this may be an opportunity to remember some of her classic (and a few less classic) articles, while at the same time serving as an accessible introduction to her research for anyone who knew her without necessarily knowing about her field, as well as for a new and younger generation of readers.

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Dame Jinty Nelson FBA (1942-2024) was Professor of Medieval History at King’s College London and President of the Royal Historical Society (2000-2004).

You can read more about Jinty’s contribution to scholarship, and to the Society, in this article, written by her friend, colleague and fellow RHS Council member, Pauline Stafford, published in October 2024.

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‘Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles’ is now available as an Open Access article in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. From August 2024, all content published in Transactions is available Open Access with no charge to the author.

The journal’s editors welcome submission of research articles covering all historical topics, chronologies and regions, and commentaries on aspects of historical debate and practice.

 

At its latest meeting on 2 July 2025, the RHS Council elected 78 Fellows, 49 Associate Fellows, 45 Members and 62 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 eleven countries: Australia, Canada, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, 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, Canada, France, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, 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 11 August and 13 October 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 July 2025

• Ben Anderson
• Katherine Aron-Beller
• Nicholas Baker-Brian
• Catherine Bates
• Samuel Beckton
• Saliha Belmessous
• Stacy Boldrick
• Stuart Brookes
• Robyne Calvert
• Steven Casey
• Richard Cassidy
• Song-Chuan Chen
• Margaret Coombe
• Esther Liberman Cuenca
• Antoine Destemberg
• Pragya Dhital
• John Fahey
• Andrew Fitzmaurice
• Isabelle Gapp
• Laura Gelfand
• Harrison Glancy
• Trevor Griffiths
• Aviva Guttmann
• Ewan Harrison
• Daniel Hill
• Peter Hodgkinson
• Michael Hooper
• Glenn Horridge
• Luke Houghton
• Christophe Huchet de Quénetain
• Alex Imrie
• Ben Jackson
• Marc Jaffre
• Michelle Johansen
• Geraldine Johnson
• David Katz
• Damien Kempf
• Sarah Kenny
• Daniel Langton
• Stefano Locatelli
• Matt Lodder
• Harriet Lyon
• Amy Matthewson
• Karen McAulay
• Claire McNulty
• Krista Milne
• Eloise Moss
• Olukoya Ogen
• Kathryn Olmsted
• Martin Pegler
• Helen Pfeifer
• Catherine (Katie) Pickles
• Helen Pierce
• Kerry Pimblott
• Oisín Plumb
• Peter Radford
• Dries Raeymaekers
• Eric Rauchway
• Anne Redgate
• Benedetta Rossi
• Alison Rowlands
• Raphael Schäfer
• Rachel Silberstein
• J.E. Smyth
• James Stafford
• Jeffrey Tatum
• Hillary Taylor
• Jennifer Tucker
• Steve Tuffnell
• Michelle Tusan
• Heidi Tworek
• Sarina Wakefield
• Stephen Walker
• Elise Watson
• David Wenkel
• Samuel White
• Kin Pan Wu
• Brandon Yen

New Associate Fellows, elected July 2025

• Abhimanyu Arni
• Susannah Bain
• Melody Bridges
• Alistair Cartwright
• Hiu Ki Chan
• Onor Crummay
• Christopher Davis
• Samantha Dobbie
• Razvan Dumitru
• Matthias Ebejer
• Ngozi Edeagu
• Shushun Gao
• Lorraine Grimes
• Christina Gundersen
• Courtney Herber
• Beth Hodgett
• Waliu Ismaila
• Zoë Jackson
• Anna Jamieson
• Pauline Jarvis
• Alexander Kelleher
• Debbie Kilroy
• Emily Lanman
• Ewan Lawry
• Gary Lawson
• Maroš Melichárek
• Henry Moore
• Safya Morshed
• Andrii Pastushenko
• Eóin Phillips
• Ellen Pilsworth
• Anna-Marie Pípalová
• Emily Price
• Liam Redfern
• Michelle Reynolds
• Beckie Rutherford
• Aruni Samarakoon
• Harry Sanderson
• Kathryn Steenson
• Guan Kiong Teh
• Natasa Thoudam
• Jonathan Tickle
• Reynold Kai Won Tsang
• Sylvia Valentine
• Diane Watts
• Sam Wilkinson
• Elena Yi-Jia Zeng
• Shuai Zhang
• Tom Zille

New Members, elected July 2025

• Sergey Alexandrov
• Hannah Bardsley
• Victoria Bentata Azaz
• Ryan Born
• Claire Clarke
• Nicola Clarke
• Barry County
• Katie David
• Caroline Dillon
• Patrick Gallagher
• Ellis Grayson
• Stephen Harper
• Jill Harrison
• Timothy Harte
• Harriet Hendley Jones
• LeSabre Hubbard
• Nicholas Hughes-Browne
• John Jones
• Swaminathan Kannan
• Habeeb Liasu
• Sakshi Mavi
• Daryl Mears
• Jim Metcalfe
• Anna Montell Magnusson
• Zak Mudie
• Saradindu Mukherjee
• James Ndua
• Angela OConnor
• Caroline Offord
• Christoph Pelanek
• Snizhanna Petrova
• Jennifer Phillips
• Lukas Pohle
• Mithra Iyengar Ramprabu
• Vishak Ratheesh Nair
• Paolo Ronchi
• Huw Rowlands
• Adam Royle
• Maria Saltrese
• Olga Sieluzycka
• Michael Wasserman
• Anthony Wentworth
• Rowan Whitcomb
• Theron Williams
• Mark Wilson

New Postgraduate Members, elected July 2025

• Luke Adams
• Zamdar Ahmad
• Benjamin Ansley
• Mary Banks
• Paul Barrett
• Alexander Birt
• Tom Black
• Amber Bourke
• Conor Brockbank
• Amy Maria Butler
• Marco Büttner
• Emily Cadger
• Thomas Casemore
• Ben Cassell
• Bidisha Chutia
• Melis  Doeh
• Lisa Dyer
• Evelyn Earl
• Matthew Eaton
• Ali Erginsoy
• Madeleine Fontenay
• Elizabeth Gilkey
• Soumyadeep Guha
• Maeve Hagerty
• Kevin Harris
• Carter Henley
• Anna Hill
• Aaron Hoggle
• Amy Hopkins
• Boyang Hou
• Po Chun Hsu
• Roseanne Hurst
• Iacovos Iacovides
• Evrydiki Ioannidou
• Thomas Keegan-Hobbs
• Ronan Kennedy
• Ayuk Lawrence Asam
• Sayan Lodh
• Ashe Loyd
• Chris Maloney
• Lynn Marriott
• Henriette Marsden
• Jennifer McFarland
• Jonathan Moore
• Simon Mortimer
• Clare O’Neill
• James Orchin
• Loan Peuch
• Clive Porro
• Mathis Prevost
• Pili Rigam
• Shadi Seifouri
• Nitika Sharma
• Carly Silvers
• Charmaine Simpson
• Nur’Ain Taha
• Adebukola Taiwo
• Amy Thorpe
• Rogan Vlahakis
• Lewis Willcox
• Klaudia Wroblewska
• Haohao Zhang

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HEADER IMAGE: Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg, German, Nuremberg, late 16th–mid-17th century, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York, public domain.

 

Video and audio recordings of the Society’s 2025 Prothero Lecture, with Professor Peter Gatrell FBA, are now available. This year’s lecture — ‘Refugee World(s): a Twentieth-Century Retrospective’ — took place on 2 July, in person and online.

Watch the video of the lecture

Listen to the lecture

 

 

Peter’s lecture drew on his recent research in the archives of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. The archive contains the letters and petitions that refugees sent to the UNHCR in the post-1945 era, and provides the historian with rare insights of how refugees presented their situation and the responses they received. The numerous case files preserved by the UNHCR disclose the hopes, aspirations and rights claims of displaced people from many different parts of the world, whether or not they were recognised under international refugee law.

Peter Gatrell FBA is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include: The Unsettling of Europe: the Great Migration, 1945 to the Present (2019) and the co-authored Refugee Voices in Modern Global History: Reckoning with Refugeedom (2025), which draws on the rich resources of the UNHCR archives to present the personal experiences of mass displacement.

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Forthcoming public lectures with the Royal Historical Society

The Society’s lecture programme continues in September / October with the following three events:

• Friday 12 September 2025: Professor Yasmin Khan (Oxford), ‘Mars and Britannia: the British Imperial Way of Warfare’ (Mary Ward House, London and online)
• Wednesday 17 September 2025: Professor Matthew J. Smith (UCL), ‘Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories’, part of the Society’s visit to historians at the University of Aberdeen
• Wednesday 22 October 2025: Professor Tim Grady (Chester), ‘Unravelling the Tapestry of Death: Britain and the Memory of the Two World Wars’, part of the Society’s visit to historians at the University of Suffolk, Ipswich

Further details of each of these lectures will be released shortly.