The Society currently invites applications for the following four schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages — with closing dates between 11 July and 5 September 2025. For further information on each programme, eligibility and how to apply please follow the links below.
Closing dates in July 2025
- Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships providing funding of between £500 and £1,250 to support innovations in the teaching of history in higher education, with projects to take place in the academic year 2025-26. Applicants must also be members of the Royal Historical Society. Next closing date: Friday 11 July 2025.
- Funded Book Workshops providing funding of £2,000 per workshop to host an in-person day seminar for historians who are currently writing a second or third monograph. Workshops bring together six specialist readers to discuss a book manuscript in detail prior to submission to the publisher. Applicants must also be members of the Royal Historical Society. Next closing date: Friday 11 July 2025.
Closing dates in September 2025
- Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History providing a grant of £1,500 to support postgraduate research for a PhD in African history. The Scholarship is open Postgraduate Members of the Royal Historical Society, currently studying for a PhD. Next closing date: Friday 5 September 2025.
- Early Career Fellowship Grants provide funding of £2,000, maximum, for discrete research projects lasting no more than six months. Grants are open to early career historians within five years of submission of their doctoral thesis. Applicants must also be members of the Royal Historical Society. Next closing date: Friday 5 September 2025.
Details of current holders of Royal Historical Society Fellowships and Grants are available here.
All enquiries about Research Funding should be sent to the Society’s Membership and Grants Officer at: membership@royalhistsoc.org.
HEADER IMAGE: Bowl with a scholar, anon, c.1575-99, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, public domain.