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Our Bursary programme is entirely dependent on donations from members and supporters of the MHS. In 2023 we made a single bursary grant of £1,000. In 2024 and 2025 we awarded two. We’d love to do more… If you’d like to contribute to important research work in an area of history you care about, please make your donation here ☛☛
The 2026 fund-raising campaign opens on 30 January. After the donation period, we’ll announce the number of bursaries we’ll be able to offer in 2026.
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Our 2025 bursaries were awarded to Jonathan Moore, a PhD student at the University of St Andrews, and Tristan Wood, a PhD student at Aberystwyth University. Each have received £1,000 to support their studies.
Jonathan’s PhD explores the theology of the mystic and schoolmaster Hugh of St Victor (1096 to 1141) and his notion of humanity’s spiritual journey towards wisdom through sacramental participation. “Hugh stands,” he says, “at a pivotal moment in the development of sacramental theology.” He points out that the Hereford Mappa Mundi reflects an outworking of Hugh’s theology, shaped in part by the nearby Victorine Abbey in Wigmore (founded by the Mortimers), where Hugh’s theology was taught. “My study will contribute to our understanding of the spiritual life of the March and the Mortimers in the 12th and 13th centuries,” he concludes.
Tristan’s PhD focuses on the influence of agency on elite native women’s identities in Ireland and Wales across the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries. “In the past historians have looked at the experiences of elite Anglo-Norman women who married into native families,” Tristan explains. “My study focuses on native women’s experience directly, allowing for a nuanced comparative analyses of women’s lives under the changing political, social and cultural scenes instigated by conquest.” His research also allows for consideration of women who lived on the Welsh March – women who directly faced the effects of colonialism on their agency and identity.
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