History UK is dedicated to supporting historians in Higher Education. We fund, co-fund and support a number of events and projects each year.
Applications for funding are encouraged from existing working groups and for new projects which are aligned with History UK’s remit of promoting history and sharing good practice.
All projects should relate to history and historians in Higher Education (HE). Consideration will be given to collaborative projects where historians in HE will work with external partners (e.g. schools, archives, etc).
All projects should represent the wider History UK membership and have demonstrable benefits for the discipline/subscribing institutions. We welcome projects that will generate outputs which can be shared on the HUK website and will be useful to the discipline as a whole.
Applicants should be members of HUK subscribing institutions. Collaboration between different institutions is encouraged.
Key themes:
- Advocacy for history in Higher Education
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in History
- Education in Higher Education
- Research in Higher Education
- Working with Schools
Consideration will be given to support working group members/project leads to disseminate findings from HUK funded projects e.g.conference attendance or public promotion of work.
If you would like to apply for HUK funding, please download our HUK guidance on applying for funding or support for projects and events (including Expressions-of-Interest) and complete the Expression of Interest.
More information about projects and events funded by History UK can be found on the HUK website.
We also support a national funding scheme for Black and Minority Ethnic History (administered by the Social History Society, and supported by Economic History Society, Royal Historical Society, History of Education Society (UK), History UK, History Workshop Journal, Society for the Study of Labour History and Women’s History Network). The scheme provides grants of up to £750 to support activities and events run by BME historians or on subjects relating to BME history. This support is open to professional historians (working in universities or elsewhere), independent scholars, retired staff and students alike. The only stipulation is that applicants should be (or be willing to become) members of either the SHS or EHS. In the case of applicants who are permanently employed in higher education institutions, their department should also be (or willing to become) a subscribing member of History UK.