The Society currently invites applications for the following five schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages — with closing dates of Friday 23 May and Friday 5 September 2025. For further information on each programme, eligibility and how to apply please follow the links below.
New Public History and Panel Grants
Two new programmes are available with support from the Scouloudi Foundation. Both schemes seek to support historians working collaboratively across a range of sectors, including higher education, museums and galleries and public history
- RHS Scouloudi Public History Grants, a new programme, supported by the Scouloudi Foundation, providing grants of £1000 per project to support activities between academic historians and those working outside higher education, either in the museum, archive and heritage sectors or in community history groups. This programme is reserved for members of the Royal Historical Society. Next closing date: Friday 23 May 2025
- RHS Scouloudi Panel Grants, a new programme, supported by the Scouloudi Foundation, providing grants of £1500 per panel to enable historians to create and present panels at conferences. Panels will bring together historians at different career stages and professions, working on a common subject area to present their work. This programme is reserved for members of the Royal Historical Society. Next closing date: Friday 23 May 2025
Other funding calls now open for applications
- Postgraduate Research Support Grants providing grants of either £500 or £1,000 (based on the activity to be undertaken) to undertake historical research. Activities supported include: visiting an archive or historic site, or conducting interviews. These grants are reserved for historians who are Postgraduate Members of the Royal Historical Society, currently studying for a Masters degree or PhD. Next closing date: Friday 6 June 2025.
- Early Career Research Support Grants providing grants of either £500 or £1,000 (based on the activity to be undertaken) to undertake historical research. Activities supported include: visiting an archive or historic site, or conducting interviews. These grants are reserved for historians who are within 5 years of submitting their PhD in a historical subject. Applicants must also be members of the Royal Historical Society. Next closing date: Friday 6 June 2025.
- Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History providing a grant of £1500 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.
Forthcoming RHS funding calls, to be released in April and May
- Masters’ Scholarships, 2025-26 (call opens 28 April), grants of £5000 to support Masters’ students from groups currently underrepresented in history in UK higher education
- Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships, 2025-26 (call opens 5 May), awards to support innovative forms of history teaching in Uk higher education
- Funded Book Workshops, 2025-26 (call opens 5 May), grants for mid-career historians, working on a second or third monograph, to bring together specialists to discuss a near final manuscript before submission to a publisher.
IMAGES: iStock graphic designs, Credit: Olena Zagoruyko; Bowl with a scholar, anon, c.1575-99, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, public domain.