Eric Hobsbawm Postgraduate Scholarships

About the scholarship

Note: the Eric Hobsbawm Postgraduate Scholarship will not run in 2025-26 but when further funding is available it will announced here.

Birkbeck has been fortunate enough to run Eric Hobsbawm Postgraduate Scholarships for a number of years. They are named in memory of one of the greatest historians of the last century. From 1947 until his death in 2012, Eric Hobsbawm was a loyal member of Birkbeck College.

The Scholarships have been set up to encourage the next generation of talented historians to pursue original, high-quality and exciting research in history by assisting financially with study and research costs.

The Eric Hobsbawm Scholarships have been made possible thanks to many donations from his friends and former students. Birkbeck College gratefully acknowledges the help and support of the Hobsbawm family.

ELIGIBILITY

Applications are invited for two MA studentships worth £5000 each to assist students interested in studying on one of the MA programmes in history, classics or archaeology in the School of Historical Studies. We encourage applications from overseas students as well as from UK and EU students. The scheme is open to part-time as well as full-time students.