At its latest meeting on 1 May 2026, the RHS Council elected 116 Fellows, 77 Associate Fellows, 81 Members and 112 Postgraduate Members, a total of 386 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 sixteen countries: Australia, Belgium, China, Cyprus, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, 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 61 different universities in the UK, Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Portugal, Ukraine, Switzerland, 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 27 July and 5 October 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, May 2026
- Abdul-Azim Ahmed
- Karl Alvestad
- Alex Antoniou
- Alessio Arena
- Tom Arnold-Forster
- Nicholas Attfield
- Christopher Bahl
- Jenny Bangham
- Eleanor Barnett
- Melanie Bassett
- Nick Batho
- Richard Batten
- Jose Bellido
- Meg Bernstein
- Audrey Borowski
- Dauvit Broun
- Anna Calori
- Maria Cannon
- Patrick Carter
- William Cavert
- Kuan-Jen Chen
- Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
- Joanne Clarke
- Jessica Clarke
- Fabiola Creed
- James Crossley
- Leith Davis
- Carolyn Day
- Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez
- Henry Dee
- Emma Dillon
- Emily Dolmans
- Marta Dominguez Diaz
- Paul du Quenoy
- Hannah Elias
- Paul Elliott
- Xin Fan
- Bethan Fisk
- Joan Fitzpatrick
- Rosaria Franco
- Amy Froide
- Samuel Fullerton
- Mark Geldof
- Lorna Gibb
- Sheldon Goodman
- Ian Gordon
- Nicholas Halmi
- Stefan Hanß
- Sophie Hatchwell
- Douglas Hope
- Purba Hossain
- Pablo Irizar
- Jacob Ivey
- Stefanos Katsikas
- Stephen Kelly
- Toslima Khatun
- Neha Khetrapal
- Karl Kinsella
- Hiram Kümper
- John Latham-Sprinkle
- Marzia Maccaferri
- Shinobu Majima
- Richard Marks
- Ainsley McIntosh
- Kiran Mehta
- Tom Menger
- Vanesa Miseres
- Stephen Moore
- Alain Naef
- Matteo Antonio Napolitano
- Consuelo Naranjo-Orovio
- Kalathmika Natarajan
- John Nott
- Adrastos Omissi
- Leah Orr
- Giuseppe Paparella
- Ellen Paterson
- Bruce Peter
- Malcolm Petrie
- Julia Phillips
- Adrian Pole
- Adolfo Polo y La Borda
- Stuart Pracy
- Diana Bullen Presciutti
- Antonina Puchkovskaia
- Joan Redmond
- Justin Roberts
- David Ruderman
- Antoninus Samy
- Peter Saunders
- Brandy Schillace
- Anita Sethi
- Victoria Shepherd
- Annie Skinner
- Matthew Smith
- Callum Smith
- Paul Smith
- Hannah Smyth
- Peter Stanley
- Ana Stevenson
- Danica Summerlin
- Rachel Swallow
- Rowan Thompson
- Moya Tönnies
- Shao Kai Tseng
- Jo Tucker
- Sonia Tycko
- Jelmer Vos
- Monica Ann Walker Vadillo
- Andrew Wells
- Richard Whitecross
- Selena Wisnom
- Teresa Witcombe
- Robert Andrew Yee
- Charlton Yingling
- Patrick Zamarian
New Associate Fellows, May 2026
- Vincent okwudiba Anyika
- Eleanor Bailey
- Stefan Bernhardt-Radu
- Meghmala Bhattacharya
- Joshua Bilton
- Huw Bradbury
- Daniel Breeze
- Katie Broomfield
- Alun Burge
- Carlos Leao Cheong
- Lauren Davies
- Júlio Cesar De Souza Dória
- James Deitch
- Andrea Dimitri
- Ellen Durban
- Elias Forneris
- Amy Freeborn
- Ross Fulton
- Witali Gerber
- Becca Grose
- Haley Guepet
- Carrie Hammond
- Annabel Hancock
- Cynthia Hatch
- Nathan Hazlehurst
- Mary Hitchman
- Gavin Holman
- Esther Howard Cuadros
- Scholastica Jacob
- Mohammed Jafari
- Catherine Jenkinson
- Henry Jones
- Elliot Jordan
- Bhaskar Kumar Kakati
- Urvi Khaitan
- Chana Kotzin
- Larissa Kraft
- Frederica Law Turner
- Felix Liber
- Joshua Madrid
- Karen Mailley
- Richard Mammana
- Niall Martin
- Fraser McGowan
- Eddie Meehan
- Nicola Miles
- Katy Mortimer
- Christian Nathen Ng
- Lesley Niezynski
- Alessia Pannese
- Emma Pearce
- Serena Qihui Pei
- Eve Pennington
- Samuel Plaxton
- Aine Poland
- Emma Powell
- Maciej Pulaczewski
- William Rees
- Zoe Screti
- Richard Senior
- Elizabeth Simmons
- Joshua J. Smith
- Daniel Smith
- James Squires
- Philip Stephens
- Annabel Storr
- Ana Struillou
- Melita Thomas
- Judith Tulfer
- John Van Wyk
- Ningfen Wang
- Oluwaseun Williams
- Philip Winterbottom
- Konstantinos Xypolytos
- Peng Zhang
- Shuai Zhang
- Kunyan Zheng
New Members, May 2026
- Heather Adams
- Michela Alessandroni
- Kwesi Amoah
- Danielle Amos
- Damola Awoyokun
- Christopher Bennett
- Anthony Berryhill
- Siman Boaz
- Bruno Boldrini
- Debra Butler
- Simon Clark
- Elspeth Clark
- Mithra de Kleijn
- Tracey Donkin
- Victoria Down
- Ffion Easton-Wilcox
- Peter Edwards
- Rania Elsayed
- Brett Exton
- Paul Foster
- Scott Fotheringham
- Tracey Gaitt
- Oyeshi Ganguly
- Roger Gilboy
- Diana Gordon
- William Guerin
- Umut Guner
- Zoë Hay
- Svitlana Hey
- Duncan Hill
- Yasser Hussain
- Peter Jeffreys
- Mark Jenkinson
- Vinolen John
- Paisley Jones
- Victoria Jung
- Seeun Kim
- Alison Kirke
- Nat Knight
- Gregor Kowalski
- Kyela Leakey
- William Lewis
- Richard Lingwood
- Sasha Madgwick
- Varunpal Mandair
- Mark McAleer
- Sarah McCulloch
- Ian McDougall
- Allyson McElwaine
- Barbara McGee
- Joseph Molto
- Kazka Nadira
- Sean O’Regan
- Oscar Oruche
- Samantha Perrin
- Michael Pitfield
- Kashnar Rakhi Anjan
- Muskan Rawat
- Margaret Rodgers
- Philip Rowe
- Sergiy Saranov
- Luke Seaford
- Oliver Shillinglaw
- Chris Shirley
- Jordan Sieden
- Beverley Simmons
- Matthew Simpson
- Lola Stakenburg
- Christopher Stone
- Harry Tan
- Hugh Thornton
- Craig Truscott-Robins
- Dmytro Tupchiienko
- Isabella van de Grampel
- Jeffrey Wang
- Martha Wood
- Qiyan Wu
- Muhammad Anas Yasir
- Celemet Yener
- Fadilah Zaini
- Weronika Zgryska
New Postgraduate Members, May 2026
- Ayodeji Adegbite
- William Askew
- Aaliyah Attwood
- Alek Barović
- Alessandro Bianchi
- Keira Blasse
- Charlie Blower
- Anne Louise Booth
- Seosaimhin Bradley
- Christine Brandl
- Richard Brewster
- Sam Brisbourne
- Eleanor Choo
- Erva Ciner
- Christopher Clarke
- Lindsay Cummings
- Nanda Deebu Sheeja
- Matteo Demartis
- Arna Dirghangi
- Ariana Ellis
- Hamza Elshakankiri
- Carlos Enriquez de Salamanca
- Imeje Fidelis
- Boris Fonarkov
- Samuel Fox
- Dominic Garwood
- Ayesha Gaye
- Olivia Golby-Kirk
- Natalia Golysheva
- Mark Gratton
- Emre Güney
- Sophie Gustafson
- Leah Guy
- Chris Hall
- Megan Hall
- Noor Hashmi
- Ryan Henson
- Geneva Henson
- Chloe Heslip
- Raymond Holliday
- Samuel Houlberg
- Ruka Hussain
- Kristen Jeanveau
- Susan Johnson
- Imad Khan
- Mi Jin Kim
- Niklas Köhne
- Zübeyde KORKMAZ
- Serhii Korniienko
- Nisha Kumari
- Veronika Lahodinski
- Marcus Leaver
- Harry Legg
- Heather Leonard
- Isabella Lewis
- Yutong Li
- Connall Maclennan
- Myfanwy Mainwaring-Smith
- Colin Mann
- Rosa Marks
- Lottie Marsden
- Samuel Marsh
- Paola Medina-Gonzalez
- Emily Michalik
- Domagoj Mihaljevic
- Catarina Miranda Ferreira
- Avery Monette
- Conor Muller
- Lavinia Munteanu
- Alyssa Myers
- Mateusz Naglik
- Alina Naqvi
- David Ogoru
- Beatriz Oliveira
- Michael O’Neill
- David Osborne
- Emma Owen Davies
- Melissa Pearson
- William Penney
- Indu Prasad
- Olga Prokopis
- Sajid Sajid
- Fathima Sana
- Christopher Sharp
- Claire Shockledge
- Simran Sidhu
- Rolandas Simkevicius
- Dominique Simpson
- Jules Siran
- Ria Smith
- Michael Smith
- Michelle Smith
- Matthew Smith
- Victoria Sood
- Sadie Spencer
- Kirsten Stein
- Theodore Stone
- Rebecca Stoneham
- klarke stricklen
- Eric Su
- Michael Ray Taylor
- Luke Thrumble
- Luke Tregonning
- Jacob Trotter
- Gide Van Cappel
- Lokesh Vyas
- Nerea Wachter Galindo
- June Watson
- Ariel Wiebe
- Kate Wormington
- Cesar Zanin
- Dalu Zhong
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