diff --git a/requests_html.py b/requests_html.py
index 3c255f6..1ab0f6d 100644
--- a/requests_html.py
+++ b/requests_html.py
@@ -201,3 +201,6 @@ class Session(requests.Session):
 
         response.html = HTML(response=response)
         return response
+
+# Backwards compatiblity.
+session = Session()