The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies wishes warm congratulations to Prof. Yitzhak Hen, Director of the IIAS, and Prof. Iris Shagrir, Organizer of the IIAS School in the Humanities, on being selected as Fellows of the Royal Historical Society.

Founded in 1868, the Royal Historical Society is the UK's leading society working for historians and history, with over 4500 member historians from across the world. This prestigious appointment expresses the significance of the contributions of Prof. Hen and Prof. Shagrir to the discipline of history and to the global historian community.