These awards are offered to help support individuals wishing to visit London to use the British Library’s collections relating to North America. We welcome not only applicants from academic backgrounds working on scholarly research, but also from creative practitioners working on artistic and cultural projects.
We are keen to hear from all kinds of serious researchers who have the potential to produce something new, exciting, challenging and different as a result of their research into the North American collections of the British Library.
This means that research towards a doctoral degree, an academic monograph or article, a poetry collection, a theatre production, a body of painting or sculpture, a new fashion collection… all these kinds of projects and more will be considered.
Funding is available to individuals based in the UK, Europe, Canada, the United States and the greater Caribbean.
Applicants may apply for up to the following amounts, depending on where they are based:
North America (Canada, the US and the greater Caribbean) – max. £2,500
Europe (excluding UK) – max. £2,250
The UK (outside the M25) – max. £2,000
The UK (within the M25) – max. £600
It is expected that this award will support around a month’s work in the Library, either taken continuously, or as a number of smaller trips. The 2021 awards will last for 3 years so, for those in receipt of a 2021 Fellowship, the research trip(s) will need to take place between 1 May 2021 and must be completed by 30 April 2024.
Find out more here
Deadline: 17.00 GMT on Friday 29 January 2021