Current research grants

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

Details of some of our previous grants and completed research projects.

Insular Manuscripts in the Age of Charlemagne

• European Research Council (£2,175,787.01)
• October 2024 - September 2029
• Professor Jo Story

Under the Radar: The East Midlands, The Manorial Court Rolls and the Revolt of 1381

• British Academy (£8,511)
• August 2024 - August 2026
• Dr James Bothwell

Fortune Telling and Astrology in Early Modern South Asia (1700-1900)

• Leverhulme Trust (£78,000)
• March 2024- August 2027
• Dr Heena Heena

Making Useful Subjects: Penal Labour in Britain and its Empire (1770-1895)

• Leverhulme Trust (£78,000)
• April 2024- March 2027
• Dr Kiran Mehta

Mapping Ancient Egypt: the relationship between Egyptology and Cartography

• Leverhulme Trust (£94,660)
• November 2023 to October 2026
• Robert Frost

Between Diaspora and the 'Land of Israel': Jewish Dress, Migration and Belonging, 1880s-1948

• Arts and Humanities Research Council (£250,000)
• February 2023 - January 2026
• See the project website
• Dr Svenja Bethke

The First Hindu Nationalist: A New Biography of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, 1856–1920

• Leverhulme (£199,052)
• October 2022 - September 2025
• Dr Prashant Kidambi

Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism in the British and French empires

• Leverhulme Trust (£371,541)
• May 2021 - April 2025
• Professor Clare Anderson
• See the Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism in the British and French empires website

Domestic Slavery and Sexual Exploitation in the Households of Europe, North Africa, and the Near East, from Constantine to c. AD 900/ AH 287

• European Research Council (£1,477,206)
• January 2021 - September 2026
• Dr Erin Thomas Dailey