Professor Tilli Tansey has been elected to Honorary Fellowship of the Faculty of the History of Medicine of the Society of Apothecaries (link is external), in ‘recognition of the extensive work have done in the past supporting the activities of the faculty’. The Faculty was founded in 1959 as a separate body within the Society of Apothecaries to "foster and extend interest in medical history". The Faculty teaches and disseminates knowledge about medical history, and has close links with several universities.