Applications are now invited for the Royal Historical Society’s Centenary PhD Fellowships to support postgraduate historians to complete a doctorate. Two Fellowships, of six months each, are offered for the academic year 2025-26. Each Fellowship is worth £8,500 and is held in association with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London.

The RHS Centenary Fellowships are part of a larger programme of doctoral funding overseen by the IHR, to enable holders to complete a dissertation. Applications are now invited via the Institute’s website before the closing date of 31 May 2025.

RHS Centenary Fellowships are intended as completion awards. They will be awarded to students who are engaged in doctoral research in history (broadly defined) and who will have completed at least three years of full-time or four years of part-time research on their doctoral programme (and not more than four years’ full-time or six years’ part-time) at the beginning of the academic year in which the awards will be held. Adjustments to these timings will be made for North American degrees, which are longer in duration. Fellowships will normally be tenable for six months.

These awards cannot be held in conjunction with any other substantial maintenance grant. Fellows may engage in teaching or other paid work for up to six hours per week.

A condition of the awards is that Fellows will participate actively in the academic life of the Institute. They will be required to attend and present papers at appropriate IHR seminars and to give information and help to fellow scholars working in the same field.

For more on this programme, and how to submit an application by 31 May 2025, please see the IHR page here.

Please note: the Society’s second PhD programme, the Marshall Fellowships, will not run in the academic year 2025-26.