Fellowships

Each year the Institute is home to over 20 Early Career Fellows. Early Career Research Fellowships range from 6 to 24 months in duration. They provide financial support for early career historians completing a PhD or undertaking post-doctoral research.

The IHR’s Fellowship Programme provides a home for researchers conducting historical projects and offers a formal IHR affiliation for those who will benefit from a period of time embedded within the IHR community and who wish to contribute to that community.  Our Fellows are often non-affiliated historians, overseas visitors, or researchers working in other parts of the history world such as public history or museums and archives. Our overarching purpose in providing a Fellowship Programme is to facilitate the research activities of mutually supportive researchers.

A list of our current IHR Fellows can be found here. 

Honorary Fellowships recognise outstanding achievement in the promotion of history, scholarship, research and/or academic leadership over a considerable period of time.

Individuals who have made an outstanding contribution as staff members to the Institute of Historical Research have also been made Honorary Fellows. Honorary Fellowships are no longer offered, but current Honorary Fellows remain Fellows for life. 

Our Research Partners are historians working in partner organisations, whose research is aligned with the Institute's academic strategy.  These organisations and projects are:

• English Heritage
• History of Parliament
• Science Museum
• Postal Museum
• Survey of London
• Victoria County History

The Institute also offers a range of Awards, Bursaries and Prizes, open to historians of differing career stages and research interests. Many of these awards are available through benefactions and gifts, or in partnership with learned societies and education foundations.

Our awards and bursaries support historical research and publishing. Our prizes acknowledge excellence in writing and presentation, with a focus on work by early career historians.