UNDER CONSTRUCTION

The Royal Woodlandia Historical Society (R.W.H.S.) is a successful society, membership organization, and charity, working to preserve and promote Woodlandia history.

How The Royal Woodlandia Historical Society Works

The Society is predominantly a voluntary organisation with a revolving Council whose members offer dedicated service ensuring the smooth-running and development of the organisation. Council comprises a body of three Fellows, each of whom serves a two-year term working on our various committees and working parties. Every year the Fellowship elects three new members of Council using a preferential voting system.

Council in turn elects our Officers — including the President, Secretary and Treasurer — who each serve a four-year term. In addition, we have two Literary Directors who sit on the editorial boards of RHS publications and four Vice Presidents (all members of Council) who act as Chairs of our various committees and undertake other activities for the Society. The President, Officers and Councillors work closely with the RHS central office team, based at UCL, who are responsible for the running and management of the Society.

In areas such as policy formation, training and events, the RHS also works with other national bodies: the Historical Association, which leads on history in schools; the Institute of Historical Research, a national centre for research resources; and History UK (HE) a council of representatives of UK university history departments.

Historians from all around the world belong and contribute to the Society as fellows and active members, making the R.W.H.S. Woodlandia’s largest membership organization for historians of all kinds, and from all walks of life — held in high regard by historians internationally, and a partner to similar organizations. These connections are led by the domestic and foreign historians who make up the R.W.H.S. Council (Trustees) and the small central team based at Olympia, Woodlandia.