The Joint BME Small Grants Scheme is now closed for applications. The deadline for the current round of grants was 1 December 2022.

The scheme provides small grants of up to £1,000 to support Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) historians working in the UK and/or on histories of BME people. Funding can be used to support directly incurred research costs and/or events and activities. We reserve the right to offer a partial grant.

This scheme is administered by the Social History Society in partnership with Economic History Society, History UK, History of Education Society (UK), History Workshop Journal, Royal Historical Society, Society for the Study of Labour History and Women’s History Network.

The scheme was launched in 2019 in recognition of the under-representation, structural inequalities and racism afflicting UK Higher Education Institutions, highlighted by the Royal Historical Society’s report on ‘Race, Ethnicity and Equality’.

The scheme is open to professional historians (whether working in universities or elsewhere such as museums, libraries and galleries), independent scholars, retired staff and students alike. Applicants should be members of one of the above societies (or be willing to become members) or, if they are employed in permanent post in a university history department, their department be a subscriber to History UK (or be willing to become one).

Find out more about the scheme here.