Leverhulme funding success for Teesside historians

Description

TU internal piece on funding success of 3 historians in SSSHL - all funded via Leverhulme Trust, including my Small Research Grant via British Academy/ Leverhulme Trust.

Subject

Dr Joan Heggie has received a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant for her work on the role women played as capital lenders in the expansion of industrial towns and development of middle-class suburbs in nineteenth-century Yorkshire.

This is the first grant success of its type at Teesside for over five years and the first for History.