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:

PRESIDENT: Professor Colin Jones

Professor of History, History Department, Queen Mary, University of London

HONORARY SECRETARY: Professor Vanessa Harding

Professor of History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London

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

LITERARY DIRECTOR: Professor Arthur Burns

Professor of Modern British History, History Department, Kings College London

VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor George Bernard

Professor of Early Modern History, History Department, University of Southampton

VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor Margot Finn

Professor of History, Department of History, University of Warwick

VICE-PRESIDENT: Mr Richard Fisher

Director of Humanities and Social Sciences, Cambridge University Press

VICE-PRESIDENT: Ms Joanna Innes

Winifrid Holtby Fellow, Sommerville College, Oxford, Tutor in Modern History

VICE-PRESIDENT: Professor Peter Mandler

Professor of Modern Cultural History, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge

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

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

COUNCILLOR: Professor Tim Hitchcock

Professor of Eighteenth-Century History, Head of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire

COUNCILLOR: Dr Jill Lewis

Senior Lecturer and Reader, History Department, Swansea University

COUNCILLOR: Professor Nicola Miller

Professor of Latin American History and Head of History Department, UCL

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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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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