Our funding
The History & Policy website has been providing policy-relevant history since 2002. The site was set up by Cambridge historians Alastair Reid and Simon Szreter as a forum for historians to discuss the policy implications of their research and make it accessible to non-academic audiences.
Between March 2006 and September 2009, History & Policy was funded by the Philanthropic Collaborative under a three-year pilot project to build on the growing popularity of the website and bridge the gap between historians and the policy world. This enabled the appointment of a full-time History & Policy external relations team, based in the Centre for Contemporary British History, formerly at the Institute of Historical Research and from August 2010 at King's College London.
From October 2009 to September 2011, History & Policy is being funded by Arcadia and The Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to deliver a new programme of work that will broaden the links between historians and policymakers.
We are also exploring ways in which the project might become partially self-funding, for instance by carrying out more commissioned history projects.
If you are interested in supporting History & Policy with a donation or commissioning a project, please contact Mel Porter: mel.porter@sas.ac.uk or phone +44 (0)20 7862 8768.