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This is a partial List of historical and heritage societies from around the world. The sections provided are not mutually exclusive. Many historical societies websites are their museums' websites. List is organized by location and later by specialization.

International societies

Global

Supra-national

Argentina

Australia

National societies

State and territory societies

New South Wales

Northern Territory

Queensland

South Australia

Tasmania

Victoria

Western Australia

The Royal Western Australian Historical Society is the overarching society for the whole state.

Perth:

  • Heritage Perth
  • Bassendean Historical Society
  • Bayswater Historical Society
  • Canning Districts Historical Society
  • City of South Perth Historical Society
  • Cockburn Historical Society
  • Colonial Bottle Collectors Club
  • Darlington Historical Group
  • Fremantle History Society
  • Jewish Historical and Genealogical Society of WA
  • Kalamunda and Districts Historical Society
  • Maritime Archaeological Association WA
  • Maylands Historical and Peninsula Association
  • Melville Historical Society
  • Midland and Districts Historical Society
  • Mundaring and Hills Historical Society
  • Perth Electric Tramway Society
  • Rockingham District Society
  • Scout Heritage Centre of WA
  • Swan-Guildford Historical Society
  • WA Police Historical Society
  • Wanneroo and Districts Historical Society

Peel:

  • Jarrahdale Heritage Society
  • Kwinana Heritage Group
  • Mandurah Historical Society
  • Murray Districts Historical Society
  • Serpentine Historical Society

Wheatbelt:

  • Beverley Historical Society
  • Bindoon and Districts Historical Society
  • Brookton and Districts Historical Society
  • Carnamah Historical Society
  • Cervantes Historical Society
  • Corrigin Historical Society
  • Cunderdin Historical Society
  • Goomalling Historical Society
  • Koorda and Districts Museum & Historical Society
  • Moora Historical Society
  • Narembeen Historical Society
  • Northam and Districts Historical Society
  • Nungarin Heritage Machinery and Army Museum
  • Toodyay Historical Society
  • Wongan Hills and Districts Museum and Historical Society
  • Yilgarn Historical Society
  • The York Society

South West:

  • Augusta Historical Society
  • Australind and Districts Historical Society
  • Bridgetown Historical Society
  • Bunbury Historical Society
  • Busselton Historical Society
  • Denmark Historical Society
  • Donnybrook Historical Society
  • Friends of Donnelly Village
  • Harvey Historical Society
  • Manjimup Historical Society
  • Margaret River and District Historical Society
  • Walpole-Nornalup Historical Society

Great Southern:

  • Albany Historical Society
  • Broomehill Historical Society
  • Katanning Historical Society
  • Kojonup Historical Society
  • Plantagenet Historical Society

Mid West:

  • Birdwood Military Museum and Society
  • Geraldton Historical Society
  • Irwin Districts Historical Society
  • Morowa District Historical Society
  • Northampton Historical Society

Kimberley:

  • Broome Historical Society
  • Kununurra Historical Society
  • Wyndham Historical Society

Goldfields-Esperance:

  • Eastern Goldfields Historical Society
  • Esperance Bay Historical Society
  • Ravensthorpe Historical Society

Gascoyne:

  • Gascoyne Historical Society[3]

Pilbara:

  • Pilbara Railways Historical Society

Austria

  • Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde
  • Historischer Verein für Steiermark
  • Österreichischer Arbeitskreis für Stadtgeschichtsforschung[4]
  • Tiroler Geschichtsverein
  • Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Wien[4]
  • Verein für Geschichte des Bodensees und seiner Umgebung

Belgium

See: List of historical societies in Flanders (in Dutch)

  • Heemkring Bilisium[5]
  • Society for History in Bruges
  • Leuven Historical Society

Brazil

See: List of historical and geographical institutes of Brazil (in Portuguese)

Canada

National societies

Ontario Historical Society, in 1914

Provincial and territorial societies

Alberta

  • Old Glenora Conservation Association
  • Edmonton and District Historical Society

British Columbia

  • Atlin Historical Society
  • Sea Island Heritage Society[7]
  • Vancouver Historical Society[7]
  • West Vancouver Historical Society[7]

Manitoba

New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador

  • French Shore Historical Society[8]
  • Greenspond Historical Society[8]
  • Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society

Nova Scotia

Ontario

Quebec

Saskatchewan

Chile

China

  • Association of Chinese Historians

Czech Republic

  • Český národní komitét historiků

Denmark

Egypt

  • Egyptian Society for Historical Studies

Finland

See also: List of local associations in Finland (in Finnish); focused on local cultural heritage and history

France

See: List of learned societies of history and archaeology in France

French Polynesia

  • Tahitian Historical Society

Germany

See: List of historical societies in Germany (in German), List of history workshops in Germany (in German), and List of local history societies in North Rhine-Westphalia (in German)

  • Brunswick Historical Society
  • Dresden Historical Society
  • Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
  • West Prussian Historical Society

Ghana

Guatemala

Honduras

Hungary

India

Ireland

Main article: List of historical societies in Ireland

Italy

Main article: List of historical societies in Italy

Lithuania

Mexico

Moldova

Morocco

  • Association Marocaine pour La Recherche Historique

Netherlands

See: List of historical societies in the Netherlands (in Dutch)

New Zealand

Norway

  • Hurum History Society[12]
  • Romsdal History Club[12]

Pakistan

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

  • Academia Portuguesa da Historia

Russia

  • Free Historical Society
  • Russian Historical Association

Saudi Arabia

  • Saudi Historical Society

South Africa

  • Southern African Historical Society

Spain

Sweden

See: Swedish local history associations (in Swedish)

  • Stockholms läns hembygdsförbund

Switzerland

See: Historical societies in Switzerland (in German)

  • Historische und Antiquarische Gesellschaft zu Basel
  • Historische Gesellschaft Luzern

Turkey

United Kingdom and Crown dependencies

See also: List of antiquarian societies § United Kingdom

National societies

Regional and local societies

United States

Main article: List of historical societies in the United States

Uruguay

Venezuela

Aviation historical societies

United States

Other countries

  • Air-Britain, United Kingdom
  • Aviation Historical Society of Australia, Australia
  • Aviation Historical Society of New Zealand, New Zealand
  • Tramway Historical Society, New Zealand
  • Aviation Historical Society of the Northern Territory, Canada
  • Bod? Aviation Historical Society, Norway
  • Canadian Aviation Historical Society, Canada
  • Ontario Aviation Historical Society, Canada
  • Aviation Archaeology in Greece, Greece
  • European Aviation Historical Society
  • Historical Aviation Society of Ireland, Ireland
  • Civil Aviation Historical Society, Australia (Air Services Australia)
  • Swedish Aviation Historical Society, Sweden
  • Ulster Aviation Society, Northern Ireland
  • West Beach Aviation Group, Australia
  • Instituto de Historia y Cultura Aeronáuticas, Spain

Denominational societies

Time-period oriented societies

United States

Subject matter-based historical societies

Canada

India

United Kingdom

United States


See also

References

  1. ^ International Historical Club, IHC, Official web-site in Russian
  2. ^ International Historical Club, IHC, Official web-site in English
  3. ^ "Gascoyne Historical Society". Trove. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
  4. ^ a b "National Resources", historiaurbium.org, International Commission for the History of Towns, retrieved 2025-07-24
  5. ^ "Limburgse heemkringen" [Limburg local history societies], heemkunde-limburg.be (in Dutch), Belgium: Heemkunde Limburg, archived from the original on 2018-08-12 – via Wayback Machine
  6. ^ "ANPUH - BRASIL - Associação Nacional de História". anpuh.org.br. Retrieved 2023-03-06.
  7. ^ a b c "Genealogical & Historical Groups in BC", bcgs.ca, Canada: British Columbia Genealogical Society, retrieved 2025-07-24
  8. ^ a b "Archival Institutions", ANLA - Archival Resource Catalogue, Canada: Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives, retrieved 2025-07-24
  9. ^ a b c d e "Historical societies abroad which exchange transactions with the Royal Historical Society". Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. 4th ser. 11. London: 237+. 1928. hdl:2027/uva.x000393238 – via HathiTrust.
  10. ^ Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, L'annuaire des sociétés savantes [Directory of learned societies] (in French), France: Institut rattaché à l’École nationale des chartes, retrieved 2025-08-07
  11. ^ a b c John Mark Ockerbloom (ed.), "History -- Societies, etc.", The Online Books Page, US, retrieved 2025-07-24
  12. ^ a b "Landslaget for Lokalhistorie: Våre medlemslag", landslaget.org (in Norwegian), Norway, 19 December 2022, retrieved 2025-07-27
  13. ^ a b c "Historical Societies and Related Organisations in the United Kingdom", royalhistsoc.org, UK: Royal Historical Society, November 27, 2020
  14. ^ a b "Local History Societies", balh.org.uk, UK: British Association for Local History, retrieved 2025-07-24, Society Directory
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