At its latest meeting on 6 February 2026, the RHS Council elected 85 Fellows, 36 Associate Fellows, 47 Members and 82 Postgraduate Members, a total of 250 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 ten countries: Australia, Canada, China, France, India, Ireland, Italy, Turkey, 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 49 different universities in the UK, Australia, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Spain, 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 9 March and 11 May 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, elected February 2026
- Cindy Aalders
- Natalie Adamson
- Talat Ahmed
- Tahaney Alghrani
- Ross Anderson
- Edward Anderson
- Leah Astbury
- Emma Barker
- Cormac Behan
- Péter Bokody
- Lucy Bradnock
- Michael Bresalier
- Erica Buchberger
- Marouf Cabi
- Bruno Cianci
- Tania Cleaves
- Martin Comer
- John Condren
- Steven Cooke
- David Cowan
- Dennis Denisoff
- Hope Doherty-Harrison
- Steve Edwards
- Mohamad El-Merheb
- Jennifer Evans
- Daniel Finkelstein
- Gillian Glaes
- Xavier Guégan
- Joel Halcolmb
- Aaron Hanlon
- Barry Hazley
- John Holton
- Robert Houghton
- Antonio Iodice
- Arthur Keefer
- Kathryn Lamontagne
- Joseph Lawson
- Rúben Leitão Serém
- Cheng Li
- Thom Loyd
- Sirshendu Majumdar
- Holly Maples
- Russell Martin
- Stephanie Mawson
- Elizabeth McKellar
- Narrelle Morris
- Hannah-Rose Murray
- Bob Nicholson
- Alison Oram
- Stephanie ORourke
- Alison Pedley
- Michelle Pfeffer
- Rebecca Preston
- Jessica Purdy
- Benjamin Redding
- Gordon Reynolds
- Nicola Ring
- Ojel Rodriguez Burgos
- Nadine Rossol
- Lucy Santos
- Cathleen Sarti
- Papia Sengupta
- Fabio Simonetti
- Holly Smith
- Richard Sowerby
- James Strong
- Matthew Sweet
- Filomena Viviana Tagliaferri
- Derya Tarbuck
- Ghoncheh Tazmini
- Melanie Torrent
- Ben Tosland
- David J. Ulbrich
- Lena Vosding
- Ciarán Wallace
- Owen Walsh
- Sarah Walters
- Phyllis Weliver
- Hugh Willmott
- Nicole Willson
- Philip Withington
- Susan Woodall
- Tom Woodin
- David Wright
- Andrew Yu
New Associate Fellows, elected February 2026
- Thomas Archambaud
- Louise Bell
- Henry Brown
- Melissa Chim
- Nelson Cummins
- Thomas Dillon
- Mathieu Gotteland
- Kevin Hall
- Timothy Hallett
- Elizabeth Hines
- William Jones
- Yuna Lee
- Shu Fung Leung
- Di Liu
- Igor Maver
- Al Meggs
- Neval Milanlioglu
- Soren Steven Miller
- James Miller
- Kate Morris
- Sarah Moxey
- Clodagh Murphy
- Matthew Payne
- Adam Quibell
- Rosie Ramsden
- Andrea Rizzi
- Ruadhán Scrivener-Anderson
- Edwin Sheffield
- Rhea Sookdeosingh
- Yichang Sun
- Barnabás Szabó
- Brandon Taylorian
- Camilo Uribe Botta
- Bret Werner
- Abby Whitlock
- Verna Yu
New Members, elected February 2026
- Alicia Bonar
- Sasha Chiappe
- Chen-yuan David Chuang
- Shannan Claxton
- Harry Cole
- Joseph Andrew Collins
- Yufan Dai
- Wouter de Boer
- Marine de Rocca Serra
- Ruby Dunn
- Adam Fenwick
- Max Fontana-Reval
- Joe Geldard
- Martin Glen
- Jon Gould
- Caroline Green
- Priyanka Guha Roy
- Li-Chi Huang
- Bernd Huppertz
- Christian Alexander Brewster James
- Farrah Janjua
- Michelle Jimerson Morris
- Janis Johnson
- Nabil Khan
- John Loffhagen
- Harry Marson
- Aaron Matthews
- Andrew Mawson
- Julian Millar
- Chris Morton
- Asif Nazir
- Omedi Ochieng
- Edward Oreilly
- Paul Orourke-Walker
- Aqsa Rajpoot
- Richard Rawlinson
- Helen Reynolds
- Isabel Schöps Thiel
- James Selwood
- Misha Svarevskis
- Nicholas Tanner
- Deatra Thompson
- Richard Vize
- Joe Wasilewski
- Christine Wise
- Peter Wood
- Fadilah Zaini
New Postgraduate Members, elected February 2026
- Caspar Allen
- Jameelah Almulad
- Aishwarya Anam
- Rachael Andrews
- Mistura Bello
- Mark Blundell
- May Brown
- Megan Buhr
- Laura Calnan
- Jessica Carey-Bunning
- Lynne Charlesworth
- Andrew Colquhoun
- Greg Cotton
- Reece Cox
- Matheus Da Silva-Armson
- Ali Daud Ul Rehman
- Mathias Deuel
- Caroline Devonport
- David Dillard
- Lisa Dudek
- Jeanne Dufresne
- Nilanjana Dutta
- Zoe Edwards
- Arvand Fata
- Abbie Fray
- Nat Gibbard
- Lydia Gray
- Lukasz Grzymski
- Cameron Harrad
- Chloe Heslip
- Eilidh Megan Hornigold
- Anne-Marie Hutchinson
- Salomé Jacques
- Lily Jeannin
- Esther Jones
- Rostyslav Kasyanenko
- Cormac Keenan
- Jude Kershaw
- Musavvir Khan Noorpuri
- Breanna Kubat
- Aman Kumar
- Eduard Kuzmenko
- Davide Lamparelli
- Antonis Leontiou
- Caitlin Lewis
- Joshua Locke
- Eugene Luning
- Anna Malczyk
- Matthew McDaniel
- Daniel McLean
- Adam Melone
- Vittorio Mirabile
- Pranav Mohan
- Robert Morse
- Sakiru Olalekan
- Nidanu O’Shea
- Jason Palmer
- Wing Pang
- Lucas Radford
- Miranda Rainbow
- KK Aruna Rajeswari
- Raphael Redmond
- Dorna Shafieioun
- Jill Shankleman
- Adyan Sharda
- Amrapalli Mohan Sharma
- Robert St John Smith
- Sophie Stanford
- Alexander Stewart
- Harry Stones
- Aisha Tahir
- Karl Taps
- Caroline Tran Van
- Alexandra Viencek
- Simon Vincent
- Pierre Waddoups
- Haochen Wang
- Rainey Warren
- Sydni Zastre
- Keyi Zhang
- Ziquan Zhou
- Alison Zilversmit
HEADER IMAGE: ‘The Garden of the Tuileries on a Spring Morning’, 1899, Camille Pissarro, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain, detail.