The Royal Historical Society offers the following funding programmes for early career historians who are within five years of submitting their corrected PhD in a historical subject (see eligibility note below) and who are current members of the Royal Historical Society. Each programme runs twice annually. Please follow the links below for full details, including application guidance and deadlines.
Early career historians may also be eligible to apply for the Society’s annual Workshop Grants and Jinty Nelson Teaching Grants.
If you are not currently a member of the Society, you will need to join before making an application. Please consult the relevant membership categories on the Join Us page for further details.
1. Early Career Fellowship Grants
Early Career Fellowship Grants support career-building research or professional activities in the post-PhD period, providing funding to enable researchers to produce a clearly defined scholarly outcome.
Open to members of the Royal Historical Society who are within five years of submitting their corrected doctoral thesis in a historical subject.*
2. Early Career Research Support Grants
Early Career Research Support Grants provide funding to enable early career historians to undertake research activities essential to the development of their projects.
Supported activities include:
- Visiting archives
- Visiting historic sites
- Conducting research interviews
Open to members of the Royal Historical Society who are within five years of submitting their corrected doctoral thesis in a historical subject.*
*For the purposes of eligibility, the five-year period following submission of the corrected doctoral thesis excludes periods of parental leave, caring responsibilities, or illness. Applicants whose career timelines have been affected by such circumstances are encouraged to apply and may include relevant details within their application.
All enquiries about these grant schemes should be sent to the Society’s Membership and Grants Team at: [email protected].
HEADER IMAGE: L. Steger, Successor to Café J. Scheidl, by Gustav Kalhammer, 1912, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain.