RHS Workshop Grants enable historians to come together to pursue projects of shared interest. Projects are broadly defined and may focus not only on academic research but also a wider range of activities. Grants offer £1,000 to host a day event.
Applications for RHS Workshop Grants, 2025, have now closed. The next call for this programme is expected in autumn 2025.
Workshops support a wider range of group activities relating to history. These may include:
- discussion of an existing research topic or project;
- beginning and testing a research idea, leading to a future project;
- developing new teaching practices;
- piloting work relating to the teaching, research or communication of history;
- planning and writing a grant application;
- undertaking networking and building of academic communities.
Each Workshop receives £1,000 from the Royal Historical Society to cover attendance and the costs of a day meeting.
Each of the Workshops will be supported by the Royal Historical Society, with updates on outcomes reported via the RHS blog and social media.
Applicants are welcome to consider hosting Workshops at the Society’s offices at University College London, if desirable.
Grant Recipients for 2025
The following six projects have been awarded funding in April 2025, for projects to be held in 2025 and early 2026:
- Barnabas Balint (Independent scholar) for ‘Tracing the Holocaust: Uses and Challenges of the International Tracing Service Archive’
- William Carruthers (University of Essex) for ‘Heritage Bureaucracy’
- Eghosa Ekhator (University of Derby) for ‘African International Legal History: Inter-disciplinary Perspectives’
- Gabriel Lawson (King’s College London) for ‘Lived Experience Advisors in Historical Research’
- Anna McEwan (University of Potsdam & University of Glasgow) and Eliska Bujokora (University of Potsdam and New Brunswick) for ‘Behind the Pages: Lives of Early Career Historians – Resource Sharing and Podcast Production Workshop’
- Fearghus Roulston (University of Strathclyde) and Lucy Newby (Manchester Metropolitan) for ‘Troubles in Ireland and Britain (c.1969-1998)’
For questions relating to the Grants please email: administration@royalhistsoc.org.