History at Leicester
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.
Prisons, Drugs and Mental Health: an interdisciplinary global study
- Wellcome Trust (£3,299,840)
- May 2025 - April 2030
- Professor Clare Anderson
- See the Prisons, Drugs and Mental Health website
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
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