Bursary Scheme for PhD Students
The Economic History Society invites applications for one-year bursaries of up to £5,000 to assist doctoral students (PhD) in United Kingdom colleges and universities; scholars who are visiting students at UK universities are ineligible to apply. The bursaries will be open to students (full or part-time), at any stage of their PhD career in economic and/or social history, although priority may be given to students who are close to completion; note that the PhD must be under way at the time of application. Please note also that applications from students currently in receipt of a full stipendiary award, or a fully-funded studentship covering fees and living costs, will not be considered. Applications for funding for research-related expenses should be submitted to the Research Fund for Graduate Students.
The Bursary is primarily aimed at supporting students without full external funding to continue their studies and to support unexpected changes in e.g. rent, living expenses, child support etc. Applicants must give an itemised breakdown of income and expenditure and identify the specific target for the proposed bursary in meeting costs.
Applicants must be members of the Economic History Society. Join here. Note that the online application form will only be visible if you are logged into the website.
Any queries should please be directed to the Administrators.
Deadline for applications: 31 July 2025
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Current and past awards
2024/25
2023/24
2022/23
2021/22
2020/21
2019/20
2018/19
2017/18
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2015/16
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2013/14
Carol Beardmore (University of Leicester)
The rural community through the eyes of the land-agent William Castleman and his sons 1812-54Kate Boehme (University of Cambridge)
Opium, capitalism, and economically-nationalist perspectives in Western India, 1845-1870Sarah Campbell (University of Oxford)
Waists, health and history: Obesity in the nineteenth centuryJudy Stephenson (London School of Economics)
The forms and rates of pay in eighteenth-century LondonSteven Taylor (University of Leicester)
Dealing with the insane child: A comparative regional study of child lunacy in the period 1845-1907Guido Van Meersbergen (University College London)
Ethnography and trade in South Asia: Dutch and English East India Company approaches to cross-cultural commerce (c.1595-1700)Stephan Werner (London School of Economics)
Quantitative performance of reinsurance companies during the interwar periodRobin Winkler* (University of Oxford)
Household consumption and saving in interwar Germany, 1927-37*Awarded The Olga Crisp PhD Bursary.
2012/13
Douglas Brown (King’s College London)
Pauperism and profit: Financial management, business practices and the new poor law in England and Wales, 1834-c.1900Pinar Ceylan* (London School of Economics)
Ottoman inheritance inventory: A source for economic geography and price historyJoseph Day (University of Cambridge)
Leaving home and migrating in nineteenth-century England and Wales: Evidence from the 1881 census enumerators’ books (CEBs)Adrian Leonard (University of Cambridge)
Financial history of London marine insurance 1548-1824Robin McCallum (Queen’s University Belfast)
English medieval towns and the monarchy, 1272-1350Harry Smith (University of Oxford)
Propertied society and public life: the social history of Birmingham, 1780-1832Stephen Werronen (University of Leeds)
The Minster and Borough of Ripon after the Black Death*Awarded The Olga Crisp PhD Bursary.
2011/12
James Barker (University of Bristol)
Local tribunals and the working of the conscription process in England 1916-18Francisco Beltran Tapia (University of Oxford)
Common lands and economic development in 19th-century SpainMary Cox, (University of Oxford)
Women and children first: an anthropometric analysis of children’s nutrition in First World War GermanyAgostino Inguscio (University of Oxford)
Civil violence, protection and trade: Genoa during the Commercial RevolutionRaphaelle Schwarzberg (London School of Economics)
The household and economic mobility in early modern EnglandJanice Turner (University of Hertfordshire)
An anatomy of London’s most disorderly neighbourhood: Rosemary Lane and Rag Fair in the late 17th and 18th centuriesAndrea Zerbini (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Settlement dynamics in the marginal: a study of the Levantine agricultural economy (1st-8th centuries)
