The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the next call for its RHS Workshop Grants for projects to take place in 2026. This scheme provides funding of £1,000 per Grant to enable historians to undertake activities, broadly defined, to pursue historical research, study and discussion. In this round, the Society will make up to six awards for Workshops to be held in 2026 / early 2027.
Applications are now invited via the Society’s online application portal, before the closing date: 23:59 on Friday 23 January 2026.
Applicants / lead organisers of a Workshop must be current Fellows or Members of the Society. If you wish to join the Society, please see here for details and the benefits of RHS membership. Applications are welcome at any time.
This is the fourth round of RHS Workshops Grants since the scheme began in 2023; further details of the latest projects awarded funding in 2025 are listed below.
About the Call
RHS Workshop Grants enable historians to come together to pursue projects of shared interest. Projects are purposefully and broadly defined, and may focus not only on academic research but also on a wider range of activities relating to historical work. These may include but are not limited to:
- discussion of a research topic or project by collaborators;
- evaluation of historical methodologies, theories or practice;
- workshopping and manuscript review of a proposed edited collection;
- beginning and testing a research idea, leading to a future project;
- piloting work relating to the teaching, research or the communication of history;
- planning and writing a funding proposal;
- undertaking networking and building of academic communities;
- activities that combine, where appropriate, historians from a range of professional and other backgrounds, including higher education, related sectors of the historical professional, and community history groups.
- Workshops may be open to an audience or closed to invited attendees according to the organisers’ preference.
Each Workshop receives £1,000 from the Royal Historical Society to cover attendance and the costs of a day meeting. In this round the Society looks to provide up to six projects with Grant funding.
Workshops will be supported by the Royal Historical Society, with updates on outcomes reported via the RHS blog and social media. Projects leading to publishable work are warmly encouraged to submit content to the Society’s journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, for consideration.
Applicants are welcome to consider hosting Workshops at the Society’s offices at University College London, if desirable.
The Society is particularly keen to support activities for which alternative sources of funding are very limited, or do not exist. The Society seeks to provide grants to those in greatest need of funding, where options for institutional support are minimal or not available.
Eligibility and how to apply
Please see the RHS Workshop Grants page of the Society’s website for further information on making and submitting an application prior to the closing date of Friday 23 January 2026.
Recipients of RHS Workshops Grants, 2025
The following six projects were awarded funding in the third round of Workshops announced in 2025:
- Barnabas Balint (Independent scholar) for ‘Tracing the Holocaust: Uses and Challenges of the International Tracing Service Archive’
- William Carruthers (University of Essex) for ‘Heritage Bureaucracy’
- Eghosa Ekhator (University of Derby) for ‘African International Legal History: Inter-disciplinary Perspectives’
- Gabriel Lawson (King’s College London) for ‘Lived Experience Advisors in Historical Research’
- Anna McEwan (University of Potsdam & University of Glasgow) and Eliska Bujokora (University of Potsdam and New Brunswick) for ‘Behind the Pages: Lives of Early Career Historians – Resource Sharing and Podcast Production Workshop’
- Fearghus Roulston (University of Strathclyde) and Lucy Newby (Manchester Metropolitan) for ‘Troubles in Ireland and Britain (c.1969-1998)’