At its latest meeting on 12 September 2025, the RHS Council elected 73 Fellows, 63 Associate Fellows, 50 Members and 63 Postgraduate Members, a total of 249 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, India, Ireland, Japan, Sweden, Norway, 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 36 different universities in the UK, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Greece, India, Singapore, 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 13 October and 15 December 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 September 2025
- Jo Applin
- Kate Ash-Irisarri
- Bernard Attard
- Rebecca Ball
- Alexandra Bamji
- Sian Barber
- Garth Benneyworth
- Pablo Bradbury
- Jules Brown
- Katherine Butler
- Courtney J Campbell
- Na Chang
- Shannon Devlin
- Jeremy DeWaal
- Jeremy Diaper
- Andrew Fox
- Thomas French
- Rosamund Gammie
- David Gilks
- Nicholas Grant
- Geoffrey Hicks
- Koji Hirata
- Sam Hitchmough
- Clare Horrocks
- Bronach Kane
- Swapna Kona Nayudu
- Ruth Larsen
- Daniel Lee
- Yi Li
- Grace Livingstone
- Vivienne Lien-Ying Lo
- Reuben Loffman
- William Mack
- Alan MacLeod
- Sharon Maxwell Magnus
- Nicola Martin
- Stephen Mawdsley
- Shaun McGuinness
- Christian Melby
- Russell Moul
- Natalia Murray
- Richard Noakes
- Christian O’Connell
- Bryony Onciul
- Zoe Opacic
- Owen O’Shea
- Mercedes Peñalba Sotorrío
- Sylvia Pinches
- Jen Purcell
- Nicholas Radburn
- Vicky Randall
- Jack Saunders
- Jochen Schenk
- Kirsten Schulze
- Anne Sebba
- Anika Seemann
- Jyotirmaya Sharma
- Ingrid Sharp
- Richard Smith
- Ljubica Spaskovska
- Jeremy Stocker
- Estelle Strazdins
- Alexander Sutherland
- Mark Turnbull
- Margaret Turnham
- Rachel Utley
- Thomas Walsh
- Dror Weil
- Jonathan Westaway
- Alyson Wharton-Durgaryan
- Alice White
- Jerry White
- Ulf Zander
New Associate Fellows, elected September 2025
- Kofi Adjepong-Boateng
- Aaron Austin Locke
- Barnabas Balint
- Andreas Bassett
- Ross Belson
- Niels Boender
- Emilie Brickel-Curryova
- Emily Chambers
- Elizabeth Chant
- Jessica Clarke
- Henrietta Cockrell
- Adam Copley
- Lars Cornelissen
- Rio Creech-Nowagiel
- Jody Crutchley
- Nicole Maceira Cumming
- James Currie
- Charlton Cussans
- Steven Daniels
- Alessandro Di Meo
- Tomos F. Evans
- Alison Elizabeth Fisher
- Katharina Friege
- Ana García-Espinosa
- Madeleine Goodall
- Felix Goodbody
- Rachel Johnson
- Andrew Johnstone
- Charles Jones
- Aidan Jones
- Aleksandra Kaye
- Hina Naz Khan
- Matthew Kilburn
- Helen Kilburn
- Yifei Li
- Saskia Polly Lowe
- Jasna Mariotti
- Holly Marsden
- Brenda McCollum
- Lorenzo Mercuri
- Katherine Milliken
- Graham Moore
- Rachel Newell
- Martin Quinn
- Diane Ranyard
- Lindsey Rawes
- Bethany Rebisz
- Martin Roberts
- Sheelalipi Sahana
- Patcharaviral Schuessler
- Maria Chiara Scuderi
- Emma Stanbridge
- James Sunderland
- Louise Tingle
- Tomi Tubobereni
- Noé Vagner-Clévenot
- Meia Walravens
- Andrew Whittaker
- Amy Wilcockson
- Manon Williams
- Gary Willis
- Conor Wyer
- Shiyao Zhang
New Members, elected September 2025
- Tobias Allende Iriarte
- Jacob Amor
- Robin Baltes
- Tapan Bhattacharyya
- Margaret Bramwell Doyle
- Constance Bwire
- Daniel Carreño Monsalve
- Sanandita Chakraborty
- Claire Champion
- Sue Cheetham
- Nikki Chivell
- Simon Collings
- Alexandra Dickson
- Harriet Dismore
- Lois Edwards
- John Evans
- Robert Fabian
- Cezary Gryczewski
- Hannah Hawthorne
- Aaron Hoggle
- Boryana Ivanova
- Jenny James
- Samantha Jephcote
- Liam Kavanagh
- Elaine Kelly
- Karen Langshaw
- Daniel Leong-Elphick
- Fang Liu
- Carlee Lloyd
- Sophia Nzeribe-Nascimento
- Muhammad Ali Ozain
- Charlie Pearson
- Ewa Rekawiecka
- Matt Rouse
- Cassandra Rust
- Samantha Sanders
- Paul-Austin Sargent
- Margaret Shepherd
- Matthew Skilton
- Richard Smith
- Paul Sullivan
- Jonathan Taysum
- Jennifer Thompson
- Marcus Vass
- Ghéza von Coester
- Fangzhou Wei
- Les Wells
- Chun Hei Wong
- Anna Wright
- Peter York
New Postgraduate Members, elected September 2025
- Ershad Ahaidi
- Angelina Andreeva
- Stephen Baker
- Alexandra Baker
- Mai Betsworth
- Chen Bi
- Gavriil-Ioannis Boutziopoulos
- Holly Bringes
- Owain Brough
- Abigail Butler
- Charlotte Canizo
- Jessica Chalkley
- Ahmet Talha Coşkun
- Daniel Costa
- Eszter D Kovacs
- Fernanda de Araujo Peixoto
- Louise Earnshaw
- Anna Edwards
- Sammy El-Goshen
- Alexandra Flagg
- Joshua French
- Foivi Georgiadi
- Asmara Ghebreyesus
- Charlie Hartley
- Celine Henry
- Mandy Herauville
- Ashley Holliday
- Nicholas James
- Alexandr Jirgens
- Amberlea Jones
- Teresa Joshy
- Salwa Kazi
- Patrick Lees
- Nathan MacLennan
- Bill Marolt
- Euan McArthur
- Lucy McCormick
- Joel Mead
- Tamsin O’Connor
- Teoni Passereau
- Jabel Philpott
- Emily Rae Jones
- Paul Roberts
- Elena Russo
- Sakshi Sharma
- Shambhavi Sharma
- Ankit Singh
- Finn Smyth
- Amanda Stafford
- Francis Taylor
- Marcus Vinicius Teixeira dos Anjos
- Joe Trigg
- Wali Tshibola Ntumba
- Danielle van Dalen
- Tamara van Riessen
- Aisling Ward
- Katharina Hadassah Wendl
- Leah Williams-McIntosh
- Lucy Wood
- Yevhen Yashchuk
- Mengyuan Yue
- Masooma Zafar
- Xudong Zhu
HEADER IMAGE: ‘Autumn in Oirase’, 1936, print, Kawase Hasui, Rijksmuseum, public domain