diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0f2d6930d..4797b0cb7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,14 @@ respectively.
  
 Interested users should see the ChangeLog for more information.
 
+* Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
+
+** New readline history functions
+
+The (ice-9 readline) module now provides add-history, read-history,
+write-history and clear-history, which wrap the corresponding GNU
+History library functions.
+
 
 Changes in 1.9.x (since the 1.8.x series):
 
diff --git a/guile-readline/ice-9/readline.scm b/guile-readline/ice-9/readline.scm
index 96af69e2f..4c852eec1 100644
--- a/guile-readline/ice-9/readline.scm
+++ b/guile-readline/ice-9/readline.scm
@@ -24,11 +24,15 @@
 
 
 (define-module (ice-9 readline)
-  :use-module (ice-9 session)
-  :use-module (ice-9 regex)
-  :use-module (ice-9 buffered-input)
-  :no-backtrace
-  :export (filename-completion-function))
+  #:use-module (ice-9 session)
+  #:use-module (ice-9 regex)
+  #:use-module (ice-9 buffered-input)
+  #:no-backtrace
+  #:export (filename-completion-function
+	    add-history
+	    read-history
+	    write-history
+	    clear-history))