We are delighted to announce that we have awarded the 2025 bursary of £750 to Dr Valentina Aparicio, ECR, Queen Mary University of London. Valentina is currently researching a monograph project, Challenging Friendships: Scottish Women Travellers in Latin America, 1820–60. She will use the award to visit Special Collections at the Bodleian Library, Oxford, to study the personal papers of Maria Graham, Lady Callcott, including her correspondence with the Brazilian Empress, Maria Leopoldina.
All the applications we received were of a high standard this year. In recognition of this, we decided to award an additional three travel bursaries of £250 each to the runners-up:
- Patricia Ahern, PhD, University of Delaware, ‘Enlightenment memories of Mary Queen of Scots’.
- Rachel Bynoth, ECR, Bath Spa University, ‘Anxiety in family letters’.
- Charlotte Vallis, PhD, University of York, ‘French diplomatic archives relating to Russian Empresses Elizabeth Petrovna and Catherine II’.
Congratulations to all four. We look forward to hearing further news of their projects.
Note: The WSG bursary opens for applications from PhD students, ECRs, and independent scholars in the autumn, with a deadline of November/December.
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Congrats, Valentina! All the others awarded smaller bursaries are dealing with beautiful topics: congrats. Maria
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