The Royal Historical Society (RHS) is the foremost society in the UK working with professional historians and advancing the scholarly study of the past. We are a learned society with charitable status that is today at the forefront of policy debates about the study of history. Founded in 1868, the RHS has an international membership of over 4500 fellows and members drawn from all areas of the discipline. The Society exists to support history and historians with a particulate ficus on the support and training of early career researchers in academia and beyond.