THE MODERN HUMANITIES RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — grant history

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Latest income
£748k
Grants listed (FY2025)
15
Listed grants total
£215k
Accounts grants total
£213k

listed grants reconcile with the accounts totalextracted from its FY2025 accounts

Application guidance — from the funder’s own website

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What this funder supports

Based on the register classifications and operating areas of the grant recipients we could match to the charity register (a subset of all grantees).

Causes funded
Where grantees operate
  • City Of Swansea (1 grantee)
  • Throughout England And Wales (1 grantee)

What changed: FY2024 → FY2025

Grantees that appear, disappear or move by 50%+ between the two most recent filings we have read. A grantee “dropped” may simply have received a multi-year grant earlier.

ChangeGranteeFY2024FY2025
newSchool of Slavonic and East European Studies—£79k
newSWANSEA UNIVERSITY—£28k
newQueen Mary, University of London—£28k
newUniversity of Aberdeen—£14k
newInstitute of Languages, Cultures and Societies—£14k
newLEO BAECK INSTITUTE LIMITED—£2k
newUniversity of York—£2k
newSheffield—£1k
not listedEdge Hill University£28k—
not listedUniversity of Glasgow£28k—
not listedUniversity of Exeter£14k—
not listedUniversity of Derby£2k—
not listedUniversity of Edinburgh£2k—
not listedUniversity of Liverpool£2k—
not listedUniversity of Kent£1k—

Grants made, per its accounts filings

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RecipientYearAmountPurpose
School of Slavonic and East European StudiesFY2025£79kSlavonic and East European Review
Swansea UniversityFY2025£28kCritical edition of the Collected Works of Elias Canetti
Queen Mary, University of LondonFY2025£28kThe Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley
University of OxfordFY2025£14kE. di Dodo
University of CambridgeFY2025£14kF. Kalus
University of AberdeenFY2025£14kL. Leonardi
University Council for LanguagesFY2025£14kSpecial Grant
Institute of Languages, Cultures and SocietiesFY2025£14kO. Glaze
University of OxfordFY2025£5kAustrian and Portuguese Studies
Leo Baeck InstituteFY2025£2kManuel Vazquez Montalban beyond the page
University of YorkFY2025£2kAnna Laetitia Barbauld: Voicing Dissent
SheffieldFY2025£1kTranslations as Research: New Perspectives
Goldsmiths' CollegeFY2025£1kMusic to my Ears: Creative Practices in Music and Translation
Goldsmiths' CollegeFY2025£585Write-back
University of BirminghamFY2025£111Write-back
Edge Hill UniversityFY2024£28kResearch Fellowship (The Letters of Hannah More)
University of GlasgowFY2024£28kResearch Fellowship (Collected Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf)
University of CambridgeFY2024£14kResearch Scholarship (E. Stefiuk)
University of OxfordFY2024£14kResearch Scholarship (E. Clemente)
University of ExeterFY2024£14kResearch Scholarship (A. Maslenova)
University Council for LanguagesFY2024£14kResearch Scholarship (Special Grant)
University of OxfordFY2024£14kResearch Scholarship (F. Wolf)
University of DerbyFY2024£2kConference Grant (Shelley Conference)
University of EdinburghFY2024£2kConference Grant (The Holocaust by Bullets, in Literature, Film and Visual Art)
University of LiverpoolFY2024£2kConference Grant (War and Gender in Modern Europe)
University of KentFY2024£1kConference Grant (Migrant Voices in Contemporary European Cinema)
School of Slavonic and East Eurpean Studies (Slavonic and East European Review)FY2023£72kEditorial Expenditure
University of EdinburghFY2023£28kResearch Associateship
University of BirminghamFY2023£28kResearch Associateship
University of WarwickFY2023£14kResearch Scholarship (S. Di Martino)
University of CambridgeFY2023£14kResearch Scholarship (M. Maiolani)
Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, LondonFY2023£14kResearch Scholarship (J. Arscott)
University of WarwickFY2023£14kResearch Scholarship (A. Brondino)
University of Bangor (Modern Language Review and Yearbook of English Studies)FY2023£6kEditorial Expenditure
University of Oxford (Austrian and Portuguese Studies)FY2023£3kEditorial Expenditure
University of YorkFY2023£1kConference Grant (Science, Gender and Sociability in a Northern City)
University of WarwickFY2023£1kConference Grant (Afterlives of an Essay)
University of LeedsFY2023£979Conference Grant (From Analogue to Digital)
University of NewcastleFY2023£715Conference Grant (Song in French Narrative)
School of Slavonic and East Eurpean Studies (Slavonic and East European Review)FY2022£66kEditorial Expenditure
Anglia Ruskin UniversityFY2022£43kResearch Associateship
University of LiverpoolFY2022£25kResearch Associateship
University of SheffieldFY2022£25kResearch Associateship
University of Cambridge (T. Vargas Ortiz)FY2022£13kResearch Scholarship
University of St Andrews (R. Walker)FY2022£13kResearch Scholarship
University of Cambridge (E. Bellia)FY2022£13kResearch Scholarship
University of Warwick (S. Serafini)FY2022£13kResearch Scholarship
University of Bangor (Modern Language Review and Yearbook of English Studies)FY2022£6kEditorial Expenditure
University of Oxford (Austrian and Portuguese Studies)FY2022£2kEditorial Expenditure
University of Leicester (The Future of WWII France in Academia)FY2022£2kConference Grant
University of Oxford (Editions, Translations, transmissions: 'That Awful Mess' of Carlo Emilio Gadda)FY2022£2kConference Grant
University of Oxford (The Heritage of Humanism and Enlightenment in Exile Literature)FY2022£1kConference Grant
University of Oxford (What does Literature do? : Rencontres autour de Alain Viala)FY2022£90Conference Grant

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This grant list is extracted by automated reading of the grant-maker’s own accounts PDFs as filed with the Charity Commission, and cross-checked against the accounts’ stated grant totals (listed sum 214851 vs reference 213459 (0.7% diff; ref=stated)). Recipients are linked to register entries only on an exact charity-number or unambiguous exact-name match. If you represent this funder and want a correction, contact us.