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
Australia
National societies
State and territory societies 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
Brazil
Canada
National societies Ontario Historical Society , in 1914
Provincial and territorial societies Old Glenora Conservation Association Sea Island Heritage Society Greenspond Historical Society
China Association of Chinese Historians
Czech Republic Český národní komitét historiků
Finland
Germany Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
Ghana
Hungary
India
Ireland Scrabo Tower , on the Ards peninsula
Lithuania
Mexico
Moldova
Morocco Association Marocaine pour La Recherche Historique
Netherlands Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap
New Zealand Tauranga Historical Society (Est. 1952) The New Zealand Historical Association
Pakistan
Poland
Portugal Academia Portuguesa da Historia
Saudi Arabia Historical Saudi Historical Society
South Africa Southern African Historical Society
Philippines
Turkey
United Kingdom and Crown dependencies
National societies
Regional and local societies
United States
Aviation historical societies
United States Aircraft Engine Historical Society, Huntsville, Alabama American Aviation Historical Society , Santa Ana, California B-26 Marauder Historical Society, at Pima Air and Space Museum , Tucson, Arizona Colorado Aviation Historical Society , Denver, Colorado Florida Aviation Historical Society Hawaii Aviation Preservation Society Maine Aviation Historical Society Massachusetts Aviation Historical Society Missouri Aviation Historical Society, St. Louis, Missouri New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society Oregon Aviation Historical Society United States Airways Heritage Association
Other countries Air-Britain , United KingdomAviation Historical Society of Australia, Australia Aviation Historical Society of New Zealand, New Zealand Tramway Historical Society , New ZealandAviation 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 ^ International Historical Club, IHC, Official web-site in Russian ^ International Historical Club, IHC, Official web-site in English ^ "Gascoyne Historical Society". Trove . Retrieved 2020-08-12 . ^ "ANPUH - BRASIL - Associação Nacional de História". anpuh.org.br . Retrieved 2023-03-06 . ^ Ards Historical Society, official site]
Further reading Boyd, Julian P. "State and local historical societies in the United States." The American Historical Review 40.1 (1934): 10–37. Dunlap, Leslie W. American historical societies, 1790-1860 (1944). Jones, Houston Gwynne, ed. Historical Consciousness in the Early Republic: The Origins of State Historical Societies, Museums, and Collections, 1791-1861 (North Caroliniana Society and North Carolina Collection, 1995) Schumacher, Ryan. "The Wisconsin Magazine of History: A Case Study in Scholarly and Popular Approaches to American State Historical Society Publishing, 1917–2000." Journal of Scholarly Publishing 44.2 (2013): 114–141. Whitehill, Walter Muir. Independent historical societies: an enquiry into their research and publication functions and their financial future (Harvard Univ Pr, 1962) 
