The Furniture History Society (FHS), which was founded in 1964, is a registered charity in the United Kingdom[2] The Furniture History Society is based in London, with close connections at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Since 1965, the society's annual journal ″Furniture History" has published recent findings on British and continental European, Asian and American furniture.

[3][4] The Furniture History Society is governed by a council elected by its members, which is supported by specialist officers.

Among its longtime leaders were Nicholas Goodison, in whose honour it published a Festschrift, and Christopher Gilbert.

[5][6][7] In September 2016, the Furniture History Society started a collaboration with the University of London's Institute of Historical Research (IHR) to produce a freely accessible online resource, the "British and Irish Furniture Makers Online" (BIFMO).