Current Research Grants & Projects

Details of current research grants and projects in the School of History, Politics and International Relations are listed below.

Click here for details of some of our previous grants and completed research projects.


Institutional strategic support fund Wellcome Trust (£45,000) January 2017 - December 2021 Professor Steve King
Unlocking Our Sound Heritage: Save our Sounds Heritage Lottery Fund via the British Library (£528,924) September 2018 - November 2021 Dr Sally Horrocks
Conflict, Welfare and Memory during and after the English Civil Wars, 1642-1710 Arts & Humanities Research Council (£545,088) June 2017 - May 2021 Dr Andrew Hopper
MNS Disorders in Guyana's Jails, 1825 to the present day Economic and Social Research Council (£1,007,672) September 2018 - March 2021 Professor Clare Anderson
Worked in Stone (WiST): Completing the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Arts & Humanities Research Council (£54,880) February 2018 - February 2021 Professor Jo Story
In Their Own Write Arts & Humanities Research Council (£613,971) January 2018 - January 2021 Professor Steve King
A head for a tooth: violence in fascist Italy’s path to a Mediterranean empire The Leverhulme Trust (£89,352) January 2018 - December 2020 Dr Luca Fenoglio
Commercial Property Development and the Remaking of British Cities, 1950 - 2000 The British Academy (£246,333) January 2018 - October 2020 Dr Alistair Kefford
Post-War urban reconstruction in China, 1937-1958 Arts & Humanities Research Council (£200,818) September 2018 - September 2020 Dr Toby Lincoln
Princely states in British India: rethinking the economics of empire, 1857-1947 The Leverhulme Trust (£88,512) September 2017 - August 2020 Dr Kate Boehme
The death penalty in British Overseas Territories since 1965 The British Academy (£4,796) July 2018 - June 2020 Dr James Campbell
Running into Empire: Abolition and the Fugitive Slave Question in British Colonial Africa Commonwealth Rutherford Fellow (£5,000) March 2018 - February 2020 Dr Richard Anderson
Fugitive Slaves of West Africa British Academy (£8,870.56) Dr Richard Anderson
Princely Cities: Towards a New Urban History of South Asia, c. 1860-1960 The British Academy (£7,930) January 2019 - January 2020 Dr Prashant Kidambi and Dr Kate Boehme
Embodying the Aristocrat: A History of the Eighteenth-Century Elite Male Body The Leverhulme Trust (£86,183) October 2016 - October 2019 Sarah Goldsmith
Insular Manuscripts AD 650-850: Network of Knowledge The Leverhulme Trust (£87,507) October 2016 - September 2019 Professor Jo Story
Politics and script: Anglo-saxon influence at the Carolingian court The British Academy (£51,216) September 2018 - September 2019 Professor Jo Story
The politician's child: growing up in the public eye, 1970-2017 The British Academy (£5,350) August 2017 - July 2019 Dr Elizabeth Hurren