{"id":52605,"date":"2026-05-07T07:56:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/?p=52605"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:56:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:56:39","slug":"applications-now-invited-for-the-societys-2026-funded-book-workshops-for-mid-career-historians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/applications-now-invited-for-the-societys-2026-funded-book-workshops-for-mid-career-historians\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications now invited for the Society&#8217;s 2026 &#8216;Funded Book Workshops&#8217; for mid-career historians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Society\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/publications\/funded-book-workshops\/\"><strong>Funded Book Workshops Grants<\/strong><\/a> support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enable an author, typically at a mid-career stage, to bring together fellow scholars to discuss and develop the manuscript of a scholarly monograph.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are now invited for two Book Workshop Grants to take place in the academic year 2026-27.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For further details of the scheme, eligibility and how to apply, <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/publications\/funded-book-workshops\/\">please see here<\/a>.<\/strong> Please note: this programme is reserved for current Fellows and Members of the Royal Historical Society.*<\/p>\n<p>Funded Book Workshops enable recipients to bring together scholars of their choosing to discuss and debate a second or third major research project which will result in a monograph, currently at the draft manuscript stage.<\/p>\n<p>Each award provides\u00a0<strong>up to \u00a32000 to an author to host a day-long book workshop<\/strong>\u00a0to consider a project and monograph text in detail. Funds may be spent to invite up to\u00a0<strong>six scholars (based in the UK or European Union)<\/strong>\u00a0to attend the workshop, and is intended to cover travel, hospitality and overnight accommodation where required.<\/p>\n<p>The programme seeks to address a lack of intellectual support that many historians face in mid career. This lack of support is often in contrast to that provided when studying for a PhD, and writing first articles or monograph derived from a doctorate.<\/p>\n<p>Workshops provide a constructive environment in which work-in-progress is developed to become a richer book on publication. In this way, the initiative extends \u2014 to those later in their careers \u2014 the Society\u2019s existing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/publications\/new-historical-perspectives\/\">New Historical Perspectives\u00a0scheme<\/a> of author workshops for early career historians.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>*If you are interested in joining the Society, please see here for details of our <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/membership\/\">Fellowship and Membership categories<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/guide-for-members\/\">benefits that come with membership<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Launched in 2023, the programme has supported day workshops for the following authors and their book projects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rachel Bright<\/strong>\u00a0(Keele University) for her project\u00a0\u2018Becoming British? A digital history of women\u2019s migration and naturalisation in early twentieth century Australia\u2019\u00a0(Manchester University Press)<\/li>\n<li data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><strong>Mark Williams<\/strong>\u00a0(Cardiff University) for his project\u00a0\u2018The Uneasy World: A Cultural History of the East India Company, 1600-1757\u2019\u00a0(Princeton University Press)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jodi Burkett <\/strong>(University of Portsmouth) for her project: \u2018International Students in Post-Imperial Britain: Experiences of Activism, Community, and Racialisation, c.1960-1990\u2032 (Manchester University Press)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Selena Daly<\/strong> (University College London) for her project: \u2018The World is Our Homeland: A Global History of Italian Emigration\u2019 (Hodder &amp; Stoughton)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jennifer Aston\u00a0<\/strong>(Northumbria University) for her book: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/deserted-wives-and-economic-divorce-in-19thcentury-england-and-wales-9781509970629\/\">Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales<\/a><\/em>, published with Bloomsbury in November 2024<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tim Grady<\/strong> (University of Chester) for his book: <a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300273977\/burying-the-enemy\/\"><em>Burying the Enemy. The Story of Those who Cared for the Dead in Two World Wars<\/em><\/a>, published with Yale University Press in April 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Society\u2019s\u00a0Funded Book Workshops Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enable an author, typically at a mid-career stage, to bring together fellow scholars to discuss and develop the manuscript of a scholarly monograph. Applications are now <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/applications-now-invited-for-the-societys-2026-funded-book-workshops-for-mid-career-historians\/\">&#8230;Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20210,"featured_media":52609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-home"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52612,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52605\/revisions\/52612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalhistsoc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}