The Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London Fellowship Programme provides a home for researchers conducting historical projects. The non-stipendiary IHR Fellowship offers a formal IHR affiliation for those who will benefit from a period of time embedded within the IHR community and who wish to contribute to that community. Fellows will likely be non-affiliated historians at all career stages, overseas visitors, or researchers working in other parts of the history world such as public history or museums and archives. The overriding purpose of the Fellowship is to create an active community of mutually supportive researchers.

As members of the IHR, fellows have access to our extensive library & digital resources, our community common room, our events programme and our seminars. As members of the University of London, fellows also have access to Senate House Library, one of the UK’s largest academic libraries for arts, humanities and social sciences. This includes offsite access to digital resources. Fellows are also entitled to a University email account and an entry in the University Directory of Expertise.

In a climate of cuts and precarity, we particularly encourage applications from those who are in-between posts or are otherwise without a history-home. Such applicants might find the IHR affiliation useful when making new job applications, might benefit from IHR resources when completing projects, and will find the IHR community a source of intellectual support and mentorship.

The IHR Fellowship is for 1 year, beginning on 1 October. It is renewable, on request following a fuller report on the previous years’ activities.