History: The Journal of the Historical Association is delighted to launch the 2025 round of its bursary scheme, which is designed to support research that will result in an article submission to History, which is jointly published by the Historical Association and Wiley.

We anticipate offering one award to an early-career researcher and one award to a mid-career researcher. Each of these awards is worth up to £ 1,500, which must be used directly towards the costs of the research in question (travel, accommodation, subsistence).

Eligibility

• Applicants for the early-career award should have a PhD or equivalent publishing record and be within eight years of their doctorate or within five years of their first open-ended contract.
• The mid-career researcher route is open to anyone with a PhD or equivalent publishing record whose professional experience goes beyond the above definition of an early-career researcher, while not yet having been promoted to a full professorship.
• We accept applications on a wide range areas of historical research, covering any era from the early medieval period to the present. The proposed project needs to involve original primary research and be situated within a broader historiographical process.

 Application process

• Please complete the application form (indicating which route you intend to pursue) and email it to historyeditors@northumbria.ac.uk by 15 August 2025.
• The application form is available as a downloadable file from this webpage.
• All applications will be assessed by a panel drawn from members of History’s editorial committee, with the criterion of the proposed work’s potential to produce a high quality research article that substantially advances work in its field.

 Conditions

• The successful applicants will need to confirm that within 18 months of the receipt of the award, they will submit an article to History.
• A progress report of 300 words is due within 12 months.
• The formal article should normally be between 8,000 and 10,000 words long (including footnotes) and be submitted in line with the journal’s guideline. Longer submissions will be accepted, subject to prior approval by the editors.