The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the appointment of its four Centenary and Marshall PhD Fellows for the academic year 2024-25. The Centenary and Marshall Fellowships provide six months funding to postgraduate historians in their third year of research — at a university in the UK or overseas — to complete their dissertation.
RHS Fellows are selected by the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, where they are based. This year’s Centenary Fellows are:
- Eve Pennington who is currently writing her thesis ‘Women, the built environment, and life narratives: reconstructing the relationship between gender and state-led urban development through the new towns in North-West England, c.1961-1989’
- Alexandra Plane currently writing her thesis ‘Reconstructing the Scottish and English Libraries of King James VI and I’
This year’s Marshall Fellows are:
- Rebecca Orr to complete her thesis ‘The Ex-Empire Builders: Migrants of Decolonisation and the Transformation of the Post-War Workplace’
- Rebecca Tyson who is currently writing her thesis ‘Sailing to Conquest: Maritime Activity and Identity in Eleventh-Century Normandy’
The Society’s Marshall Fellowships are supported by the generosity of Professor Peter Marshall FBA, formerly Rhodes Professor of Imperial History at King’s College London and President of the Royal Historical Society from 1996 to 2000.
Details of the next call for this Fellowship scheme, for the academic year 2025-26, will be announced in Spring 2025.
For more on the Society’s Research Funding programme, for historians at all career stages, please see here.
IMAGE: Box and Books, Uematsu Tōshū, Japanese, Edo period (1615–1868), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, public domain