In recent years, the Society has concentrated on the publication of name indexes to English probate records, and the texts of 17th-century Hearth Tax returns.
Over the past half century the Society has largely, but not exclusively, concentrated on the publication of name indexes to probate records, and the texts of Hearth Tax returns from the 1660s and 1670s.
A longer history of the Society and its current activities will be found on its website.
[3] A complete list of its publications up to 1982 will be found in E. L. C. Mullins, Texts and Calendars, I and II, Royal Historical Society, 1958 and 1983.
Details of those published after 1982 can be found on the Royal Historical Society's website.