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The Government of the Society
The Royal Historical Society is governed by a Council comprising the President and five Officers, six Vice Presidents, twelve elected Councillors and the Officers of the Society. Sessions of Council take place five times per year in the Council Chamber at its headquarters in University College London.
The current membership of the Council is as follows:
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PRESIDENT: Professor Colin Jones
Professor of History, History Department, Queen Mary, University of London |
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HONORARY SECRETARY: Professor Vanessa Harding
Professor of History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London |
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HONORARY TREASURER: Professor Jon Parry
Director of Studies in History, Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge |
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HON. DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS: Professor Matthew Cragoe
Professor of History, Head of School of History, Art History & Philosophy, University of Sussex |
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LITERARY DIRECTOR: Dr Ian Archer
Fellow, Keble College, Oxford |
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LITERARY DIRECTOR: Professor Arthur Burns
Professor of Modern British History, History Department, Kings College London
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VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor George Bernard
Professor of Early Modern History, History Department, University of Southampton |
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VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor Margot Finn
Professor of History, Department of History, University of Warwick |
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VICE-PRESIDENT: Mr Richard Fisher
Director of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cambridge University Press |
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VICE-PRESIDENT: Ms Joanna Innes
Winifrid Holtby Fellow, Sommerville College, Oxford, Tutor in Modern History |
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VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor Peter Mandler
Professor of Modern Cultural History, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge |
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VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor David Palliser
Emeritus Professor of Medieval History, History Department, University of Leeds |
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COUNCILLOR: Professor Simon Barton
Professor of History, School of History, University of Exeter |
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COUNCILLOR: Professor Sean Connolly
Professor of Irish History, School of History and Anthropology, University of Belfast |
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COUNCILLOR: Professor Mark Cornwall
Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton |
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COUNCILLOR: Professor Simon Dixon
Sir Bernard Pares Chair of Russian History, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL |
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COUNCILLOR: Professor Ken Fincham
Professor of Early Modern History, Head of School of History, University of Kent
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COUNCILLOR: Professor Chris Given-Wilson
Professor of Medieval History, History Department, University of St Andrews |
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COUNCILLOR: Professor Tim Hitchcock
Professor of Eighteenth-Century History, Head of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire |
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COUNCILLOR: Dr Jill Lewis
Senior Lecturer and Reader, History Department, Swansea University |
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COUNCILLOR: Professor Nicola Miller
Professor of Latin American History and Head of History Department, UCL |
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COUNCILLOR: Professor Mark Ormrod
Professor of History, Department of History, University of York |
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COUNCILLOR: Dr David Thomas
Director of Technology and Chief Information Officer, The National Archives |
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COUNCILLOR: Professor Chris Whatley
Professor of Scottish History, Vice-Principle and Head of College of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Dundee |
The Society's Councillors are involved in a wide variety of historical societies, research projects and research panels. You may read about their external research interests HERE.
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News
NEXT EVENT
Professor Barbara Taylor
"THE DEMISE OF THE ASYLUM IN LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITAIN: A PERSONAL HISTORY"
Friday 24 September 2010 at 5.30pm
Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, UCL
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