Grants awarded

To assess the need for, and improve engagement with, digital resources in African universities.

To develop an online, open access, oral history archive for the study of 20th-century science in Britain. In 2015, the project's 'Voices of Science' web resource won the Royal Historical Society's Public History Prize for Web and Digital (www.bl.uk/voicesofscience).

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

To catalogue and digitize collections of primary materials, especially those in non-Roman alphabets without previous transcriptions, and to make them available for free online.

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

To increase access to special library collections and train graduate students and scholars in collections management.

To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan’s multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism.

To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

To build an online library of scholarly resources and make it available for free online to users from African institutions

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

To showcase the origins and development of reading and writing across cultures, from the fourth century BC to the printing press.

To establish: the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History; the Joyce Oldham Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World; the Hans Rogger International Student Fund in History; the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund; and, the Dean of Social Sciences Fund for Faculty Support in History in the Cllege of Letters and Science.

To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan's multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.

The Endangered Archives Programme gives grants to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration. The programme supports projects that cover rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

To exhibit calligraphy, textiles, jewels, metalwork, ceramics and paintings from the 9th to 19th centuries.

The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme gives grants to linguists and community members to document languages around the world that are at risk of falling silent. The programme makes the digital documentation of these languages freely available online.

To preserve the Institute’s academic autonomy.