| Dates active |
Staff member |
Grant |
Project title
|
Funding awarded |
| May 2021 - April 2025 |
Professor Clare Anderson |
The Leverhulme Trust |
Convicts, Creolization and Cosmopolitanism in the British and French Empires |
£371,541 |
| October 2020-September 2024 |
Professor Roey Sweet |
The Leverhulme Trust |
War, travel and cultural exchange: William Gell and the British in Iberia, 1750-1830 |
£222,380 |
October 2019 - September 2024
|
Professor David Gentilcore
|
European Research Council
|
WaterCultures: The Water Cultures of Italy, 1500-1900
|
£1,810,777 |
| February 2022 - August 2024 |
East Midlands Oral History Archive |
Heritage Lottery Fund |
Sounds for the Future: Widening Access to the East Midlands Oral History Archive |
£249,087 |
| May 2023 - April 2024 |
Professor Elizabeth Hurren |
Leverhulme |
Histories of Nobody: The Pauper Body in England and Wales, 1750 1914 |
£46,541 |
| August 2021-January 2024 |
Dr Helen Metcalfe |
Wellcome Trust |
A Healthy Approach to Grief and Loss in Late-Georgian Britain, c. 1760-1830 |
£177,775 |
| September 2018-September 2023 |
Dr Toby Lincoln |
AHRC |
Post-War urban reconstruction in China, 1937-1958 - |
£200,818 |
| September 2021 - August 2023 |
Dr Angela Muir |
British Academy |
Diversity, Identity and Social Change in South Wales, 1730-1830 |
£6,100 |
| January 2022-June 2023 |
Professor Krista Cowman |
AHRC |
A [Socially Isolated] Room of One's Own - Women Writing Lockdown |
£21,959 |
|
April 2020 - March 2023
|
Professor Kevin Schürer
|
Economic and Social Research Council
|
Britain's first demographic transitions: an integrated geography
|
£100,928 |
| February 2018-January 2023 |
Professor Jo Story |
AHRC |
Worked in Stone (WiST): Completing the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture - |
£54,880 |
| 2021-2023 |
Professor Elizabeth Hurren |
Midlands Innovation, Inclusive Transformation Fund |
The Imagined Village: A Digital Community of Dignity and Diversity |
£7,500 |
| January 2020 - December 2022 |
Dr Richard Jones |
AHRC |
Enhancing UK flood resilience, past floods, present threats, future responses |
£25,010 |
| June 2017 - October 2022 |
Dr Andrew Hopper |
AHRC |
Conflict, Welfare and Memory during and after the English Civil Wars, 1642 - 1710 |
£545,088 |
| September 2019 - August 2022 |
Deborah Toner |
AHRC |
Alcohol, Race and Ethnicity: The United States, Mexico and the Wider World, 1845 - 1940 |
£191,976 |
| April 2021 - July 2022 |
Professor Clare Anderson |
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
The Salvation Army's Imperial Settlements and Colonies, Australia and South Africa c. 1890-1939 |
£5,370 |
| September 2018-July 2022 |
Professor Clare Anderson |
Economic and Social Research Council |
MNS Disorders in Guyana's Jails, 1825 to the present day |
£1,007,672 |
| October 2021 - July 2022 |
Dr Kristy Warren |
The British Academy |
Seeking Charles Wotton: Before the Liverpool 'Race Riots' of 1919 |
£5,370 |
| October 2021-April 2022 |
Dr Helen Foster |
Wellcome Trust ISSF |
Story Sharing: Developing a Wellbeing Approach to Gathering Midlife Narratives |
£8,688 |
| December 2021 - March 2022 |
Dr Helen Foster |
ESRC IAA |
Menopaurus: Words Women Use to Talk About Menopause |
£3,688 |
| March 2021 - March 2022 |
Professor Clare Anderson |
British Academy |
Colonial and Post-colonial History: enhancing knowledge, capacity and networks in the Caribbean, sub Saharan Africa and South Asia |
£9,856 |
| January 2020 - January 2022 |
Dr Richard Butler |
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
Church, State and Building of Ireland's South Coast Cities: Cork and Waterford, c.1935-1965 |
£199,919 |
| January 2017 - December 2021 |
Professor Steven King |
Wellcome Trust |
Institutional strategic support fund |
£45,000 |
| January 2019-December 2021 |
Prashant Kidambi |
The British Academy |
Princely Cities: Towards a New Urban History of South Asia, c. 1860-1960 |
£7,930 |
| September 2018-November 2021 |
Dr Sally Horrocks |
Heritage Lottery Fund |
Unlocking Our Sound Heritage: Save our Sounds |
£528,924 |
| September 2017 - 31 August 2021 |
Dr Kate Boehme |
Leverhulme Trust |
Princely states in Britain India: rethinking the economics of empire, 1857-1947 |
£88,512 |
| July 2018-June 2021 |
James Campbell |
The British Academy |
The death penalty in British Overseas Territories since 1965 |
£4,796 |
| January 2020-May 2021 |
Helen Foster |
Heritage Lottery Fund |
Silence in the Archives: an oral history of menopause |
£10,000 |
| December 2020 - March 2021 |
Dr Simon Dixon |
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
Enhancing digital capability for library collections |
£42,352 |
| January 2018 - January 2021 |
Professor Steven King
|
Arts and Humanities Research Council
|
|
£613,971 |
| January 2018 - December 2020 |
Dr Luca Fenoglio
|
Leverhulme Trust
|
A head for a tooth: violence in facist Italy's path to a Mediterranean empire
|
£89,352 |
| January 2018 - October 2020 |
Dr Alistair Kefford
|
British Academy
|
Commercial Property Development and the Remaking of British Cities 1950-2000
|
£246,333 |
| October 2016 - October 2019 |
Dr Sarah Goldsmith
|
Leverhulme Trust
|
|
£86,183 |
| September 2018 - September 2019 |
Professor Jo Story |
British Academy |
Politics and script: Anglo-saxon influence at the Carolingian court |
£51,216 |
| October 2016 - September 2019 |
Professor Jo Story
|
Leverhulme Trust
|
Insular Manuscripts AD 650-850: Network of Knowledge
|
£87,507
|
| August 2017 - July 2019 |
Dr Elizabeth T. Hurren |
British Academy |
The politician's child: growing up in the public eye, 1970-2017 |
£5,350 |
| January 2018 - March 2019 |
Professor Clare Anderson |
British Academy |
History and Security Sector Reform: Crime and Punishment in British Colonial Guyana, 1814-1966 |
£45,545 |
| October 2015 - October 2018 |
|
|
Education, travel and family strategy in Britain and Ireland, c1650-1750 |
£244,103 |
| October 2016 - September 2018 |
Dr Marianna Charountaki |
The Kurdistan Regional Government |
Kurdistan International Studies Unit |
£250,000 |
| September 2015 - September 2018 |
Dr Maeve Ryan
|
Leverhulme Trust
|
The British Empire and the Geopolitics of Human Rights
|
£84,450 |
| March 2013 - September 2018 |
Professor Clare Anderson |
European Research Council |
The Carceral Archipelago: transnational circulations in global perspective, 1415-1960 |
€1.493m
|
| August 2016 - July 2018 |
Dr Richard Jones |
Leverhulme Trust |
Flood and Flow: Place-Names and the Changing Hydrology of River-Systems |
£128,725 |
| September 2016 - June 2018 |
|
Heritage Lottery Fund |
A Post-War History of Leicester 1945-1962 |
£27,000 |
| June 2013 - April 2018 |
Professor Andrew Hopper and Dr Julie Attard |
Victoria County History Trust |
Charnwood Roots |
£384,513 |
| April 2017-December2017 |
Dr Svenja Bethke |
Society of Antiquaries London |
Clothing, fashion and transnational identities in Palestine/ Israel, 1880s-1960s |
£2,500 |
| February 2016-December 2017 |
Mr James Moore |
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
Moore 'Preserving Egypt's Cultural Heritage' |
£20,379 |
October 2014 – September 2017
|
Dr Eureka Henrich
|
Wellcome Trust
|
Healthy Citizens? Migrant Identity and Constructions of Health in Postwar Australia
|
£189,006 |
| April 2016 - May 2017 |
Dr Richard Butler |
Leicester City Council |
St Peter's Belgrave historic village church project |
£15,318 |
| February 2012 - January 2017 |
Dr Elizabeth T. Hurren
|
Wellcome Trust
|
Disputed Bodies: Narratives of Medical Research in Europe, c. 1940s to 2001
|
£191,937
|
| October 2013 - September 2016 |
Dr Irina Marin |
Leverhulme Trust |
Fear Across Borders: Peasant Violence and Anti-Semitism in Eastern Europe |
£62,016 |
| September 2013 -August 2016 |
Professor David Gentilcore |
Economic and Social Research Council |
Rough Skin: Maize, Pellagra and Society in Italy, 1750-1930 |
£430,234 |
| March 2013 - March 2016 |
Professor Norman Housley |
Leverhulme Trust |
Reconfiguring the crusade in the fifteenth century: goals, agencies and resonances |
£67,358 |
| 2011 - 2016 |
|
Wellcome Trust |
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse |
£839,092 |
| January 2011 - January 2016 |
Professor Jo Story |
Leverhulme Trust |
The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: Evidence, Memories, Inventions |
£1,290,707 |
| October 2012 - September 2015 |
Dr Toby Lincoln |
British Academy |
The Habitable City: Chinese Urban History in a Global Context |
£29,680 |
| February 2014 - February 2015 |
Professor Norman Housley |
Leverhulme Trust |
Crusading in the Fifteenth Century |
£41,323 |
| September 2013 - December 2014 |
Dr Sally Horrocks |
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
Our Place in the First World War |
£20,085 |
| October 2011 - October 2014 |
Dr Erika Hanna |
Leverhulme Trust
|
Popular Photography and Camera Culture in Ireland 1922-2000
|
£75,374
|
| October 2011 - September 2014 |
Professor Simon Gunn
|
Leverhulme Trust |
Motor Cities: Automobility and the Urban Environment in Nagoya, Japan, and Birmingham, England, 1955-1973
|
£76,783 |
| September 2011 - August 2014 |
Professor John Coffey |
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
A Scholarly Edition of Richard Baxter's Reliquiae Baxterianae |
£40,046 |
|
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|
|
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| June 2010 - May 2014 |
Professor Steven King
|
Wellcome Trust
|
Health Care in Public and Private |
£60,998 |
May 2011 - April 2014
|
Professor Steven King |
Arts and Humanities Research Council
|
Pauper letters and petitions for poor relief in Germany and Great Britain, 1770-1914
|
£241,808
|
February 2011 - February 2014
|
Dr Nadine Bhattacharya
|
Wellcome Trust |
A coming of age story: Nationalist enterprise and the Indian pharmaceutical industry, 1900-1960 |
£171,087
|
| January 2012 - January 2014 |
Professor Kevin Schürer |
JISC |
Digging Into Data Challenge |
£97,083 |
| September 2012 - August 2013 |
Professor John Coffey |
Leverhulme Trust |
British Abolitionists and Protestant Millennialism, 1770-1840 |
£35,441 |
September 2010 - August 2013
|
Dr Peter Darby
|
British Academy
|
Heresy and Orthodoxy in the works of Bede
|
£229,209
|
| October 2009 - March 2013 |
Professor Clare Anderson |
Economic and Social Research Council |
Integrated Histories of the Andaman Islands |
£46,090 |
| October 2012 - January 2013 |
Dr Andrew Johnstone |
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
Internationalism, Ideology and the debate over US entry into World War II, 1937-41 |
£28,610 |
December 2009 - June 2012
|
Professor Steven King |
Wellcome Trust
|
Sickness, poverty and medical relief in England 1750-1850
|
£22,377
|
| July 2009 - June 2012 |
Professor George Lewis
|
British Academy
|
Un-Americans: Ideological Dissent, Patriotic Subversion and Isolating the "Other" in the USA
|
£111,404 |
| February 2010 - January 2012 |
Professor Steven King |
Wellcome Trust |
Voices of the sick poor: the patients' experience of medical negligence under the New Poor Law |
£82,091 |
| April 2008 - September 2011 |
Professor Keith Snell |
Economic and Social Research Council |
|
£74,298 |
| July 2009 - April 2011 |
Dr Prashant Kidambi |
Leverhulme Trust |
Sport and the Imperial bond |
£43,707
|
| September 2010 - January 2011 |
Professor John Coffey |
Arts and Humanities Research Council |
'Let my People Go!': Anglo- American Liberation Theology from the Puritans to the Abolitionists |
£33,943 |
| October 2007 - September 2010 |
Professor David Gentilcore |
Leverhulme Trust |
New world plants in Italy, from observation to assimilation (1500-1850) |
£112,364
|