The Society’s Research Funding supports a large number of historians across a range of activities: from studying for a Masters’ degree and finishing a PhD, to undertaking research and working on a project, such as writing an article.
The following individuals are current holders of RHS Fellowships and Grants in 2025. Each year, the Society awards nearly £150,000 in research funding to historians at all career stages through open competitions.
Full details, and call timetables, for all Royal Historical Society research funding are available here.
1. Centenary Research Fellows, 2025-26
Held for 6 months, jointly with the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, the Centenary Fellowships enable historians to complete their PhDs and receive research training:
Angelina Andreeva is an RHS Centenary Fellow, 2025-26, held jointly with the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.
‘Mapping Lives: Ego Documents and Urban Experiences in London c. 1650-1690’
Angelina is a fourth-year PhD researcher at Lancaster University, supervised by Naomi Tadmor and Ian Gregory. Her doctoral work builds on her academic background in public history and linguistics, which she pursued in England, Italy, and Russia.
Her PhD project explores experiences of urban space in Restoration London, applying GIS mapping to personal diaries of Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn, and Robert Hooke. By recentering individual narratives, the project seeks to personalise the history of the period and open new perspectives on its urban environment.
The project’s innovative methodology augments traditional historical methods with digital humanities to shed light on a period of London’s history that has yet to be studied through this methodological lens. Treating personal diaries not only as historical texts but also as sources for spatial data, Angelina uses GIS mapping to visualise patterns and discrepancies, movements and perceptions across time and London’s city space. These methods have revealed distinct ways in which diarists navigated and understood their city, highlighting broader trends in Restoration London’s social geography.
By transforming complex historical data into accessible visual tools, Angelina aims to make her findings valuable not only to academics but also to non-specialist audiences, contributing to broader discussions around urban history, memory, and digital heritage.
Joel Mead, is an RHS Centenary Fellow, 2025-26, held jointly with the Institute of Research, University of London.
Breaking and Remaking the British Egg: Intersections of Class, Health, Gender and Animal Welfare, 1941-1999
Joel is a PhD researcher in History at the University of Liverpool. He previously completed a BA in History at the University of Birmingham and an MA in Modern History at the University of Warwick.
His doctoral research investigates egg production and consumption in post-war Britain, exploring how the industrialisation of this staple food intersected with debates about health, identity, and the environment. Despite their cultural and political significance, eggs have received little scholarly attention compared to other foodstuffs.
Drawing on a wide range of sources—including government records, Mass Observation responses, advertisements, activist literature, and media representations—the project reconstructs the cultural and political life of eggs, showing how their meanings were produced and contested across institutions, households, and public discourse. In doing so, it illuminates wider histories of health, the environment, and modern British society and engages with debates on the intensification of agriculture, the changing British diet, and the moral politics of eating.
2. Early Career Fellowship Grant holders, 2025-26
Held for up to 6 months, Early Career Fellowship Grants provide support for post-doctoral researchers to work on a defined project, such as writing an article or book proposal:
- Milo Gough – awarded October 2025
- Jennifer McFarland – awarded October 2025
- Rachel Johnson – awarded October 2025
- Nicola Miles – awarded October 2025
- Rebekah Hodgkinson – October April 2025
- Caitlín Smith – awarded October 2025
- Adele Sykes – awarded April 2025
- Charlotte Eaton – awarded April 2025
- Lili Scott Lintott – awarded April 2025
- Tarini Bhamburkar – awarded April 2025
- Clare Maudling – awarded April 2025
- William Rees – awarded April 2025
- Juliette Desportes – awarded April 2025
3. Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History, 2025-26
Awarded annually, the Martin Lynn Scholarship supports research in the history of Africa:
- Stephen Dunning – awarded October 2025
4. Masters’ Scholarships in History, 2025-26
Awarded annually, Masters’ Scholarships support students studying for a Masters’ degree in History at a UK university. Scholarships are reserved for early career historians from groups underrepresented in academic history:
- Emily Jones (first degree Warwick) to study for an MA in Modern History at Warwick
- Ershad Ahaidi (first degree UCL) to study for an MA in Economic History at the LSE
- Wali Ntumba (first degree Greenwich) to study for an MA in History at UCL
- Aisling Ward (first degree Goldsmiths) to study for an MRes in Public History at Birkbeck, University of London
The Society is very grateful to the Scouloudi Foundation for its support of the Masters’ Scholarships programme in 2025-26.
5. Postgraduate Research Support Grants, 2026
Introduced in Spring 2023, Postgraduate Research Support Grants are available to History students (who are Postgraduate Members of the Royal Historical Society), currently studying for a Masters degree or PhD to undertake historical research.
- Lennart Schmidt – awarded January 2026
- Ellis Hinton – awarded January 2026
- Santiago Garcia – awarded January 2026
- Deguang Li – awarded January 2026
6. Early Career Research Support Grants, 2026
Introduced in Spring 2023, Early Career Research Support Grants are available to historians within 5 years of submitting their PhD in a historical subject (who are members of the Royal Historical Society) to undertake research.
- Basudhita Basu – awarded January 2026
- Gabriel Lawson – awarded January 2026
- Larissa Johanna Kraft – awarded January 2026
- Waliu Ismaila – awarded January 2026
- Nilakshi Das – awarded January 2026
7. Open Research Support Grants, 2025-26
Introduced in Spring 2023, Open Research Support Grants are available to all historians (who are members of the Royal Historical Society) who are not postgraduate students or early career researchers (within 5 years of completing a PhD). Open Research Support Grants provide funds to historians to undertake historical research.
- Yaqoob Bangash – awarded October 2025
- Lynneth Miller Renberg – awarded October 2025
- Gareth Roddy – awarded October 2025
- Sara Bernard – awarded October 2025
- David Clampin – awarded April 2025
- Claire Phillips – awarded April 2025
- Aidan Forth – awarded April 2025
- Guy Middleton – awarded April 2025
8. Workshop Grants, 2026
Awarded annually from 2022, Workshop Grants provide support for groups of historians to meet and discuss shared projects in detail. Workshop Grants are open to historian at all career stages.
RHS Workshop Grant holders for 2026:
- Eleanor Bland (Oxford Brookes University), ‘History in Motion: Integrating Historical Methods into Criminology and International Political Economy’
- Wendy Davies (Independent historian), ‘Making and Moving Consumables, 500-1000. From the Local to the Wider World’
- Paul Dudman (University of East London), ‘Refugee History: Community archives and lifelong learning – amplifying the experiences of displacement and solidarity in exile’
- Jayne Gifford (University of East Anglia), ‘“Invisible Work”: Diplomatic Wives and Spouses in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century’
- Meg Kobza (Independent historian), ‘The Person Behind the Pomp and Pageantry: Commemorating the 700th Mayoralty of London’
- Jonathan Spangler and Alyssa Myers (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘Beyond the Country House’
9. Funded Book Workshop Grants, 2025-26
First awarded in 2023, Funded Book Workshop Grants provide support for authors currently writing a second or third monograph to hold a day workshop with six invited readers to discuss a draft manuscript
Funded Book Workshop Grant holders for 2025-26:
- Rachel Bright (Keele) for her project ‘Becoming British? A digital history of women’s migration and naturalisation in early twentieth century Australia’ (Manchester University Press)
- Mark Williams (Cardiff) for his project ‘The Uneasy World: A Cultural History of the East India Company, 1600-1757’ (Princeton University Press)
10. Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships, 2025-26
First awarded in 2023, Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships provide support for historians to trial new approaches in teaching History in UK Higher Education, or to undertake surveys of current aspects of History teaching. The Fellowships are named for the Dame Jinty Nelson (1942-2024), President of the Society, 2000-04.
Fellowship holders in the academic year 2025-26:
- Jody Crutchley (Liverpool Hope), ‘Using Interactive LED Wall Technology and VR to Teach the History of Settler Colonialism’
- Jasper Heinzen (York), ‘How to Read Foreign-language Sources in 80 Days: Helping Students Get the Most out of Translation Software’
- Jason Lee (De Montfort), ‘Teaching tool to address the historical dimension of conspiracy theories, using MOOCS’
- Marion Loeffler (Cardiff), ‘Digital Training Day for Doctoral Students’
11. David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland the Scottish People, 2025-26
First awarded in May 2024, the David Berry Fellowship provides support for historians to undertake research in the history of Scotland and the Scottish people.
Fellowship holders in 2025:
- Zoe Jackson to support her postdoctoral research project on ‘Remembering Rights of Way in Early Modern Britain’.
- Philippa Woodcock to support her research project on ”They wept together’. Investigating miscarriage, taboo and support in early modern Scotland’.
12. Scouloudi Public History Grants, 2025-26
First awarded in 2025, the Public History Grants support innovative practice in public history and provide funding for defined projects by historians working together in and beyond higher education. This programme is generously supported by the Scouloudi Foundation.
- Rachel Dishington (University of Nottingham) and Sarah Colborne (University of Nottingham Archives) , ‘Living and Working Along the Leen’
- Iqbal Singh (The National Archives) and Eleanor Newbigin (SOAS), ‘Participatory workshops on colonial history for historians in higher education, the GLAM sector and community history groups’
- Kathleen McIlvenna (University of Derby) and Kate Crossley (Arkwright Society) , ‘Re-interpreting Florence Nightingale in Derbyshire’
- Rachel Delman (Oxford) and James Spellane (The Charterhouse), ‘London’s Watery Heritage: Co-producing New Knowledge about the Charterhouse Water Maps’
13. Scouloudi Panel Grants, 2025-26
First awarded in 2025, Panel Grants support the formation of panels to present, in-person, research on a shared historical theme at an academic conference, or equivalent event, in history or a cognate discipline.This programme is generously supported by the Scouloudi Foundation.
- ‘Commons and Communities: Celebrating Professor Andy Wood’, with speakers Lily R. Chadwick, Mark Hailwood, Susannah Ottaway and Steve Hindle: to enable Lily Chadwick (Woodbrooke Centre, Birmingham) to participate in the panel, to take place at the 2025 meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) in Montreal in November.
- ‘Continuities and Challenges: Women’s Politics and Activism in 1970s Britain’, with speakers Jessica White, Caitríona Beaumont, Ruth Davidson, Lyndsey Jenkins, and Laura Beers: to support members of the panel without alternative means of institutional financial support to participate in the panel, to take place at the 2025 meeting of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) in Montreal in November.