Support us

We maintain our teaching and research excellence thanks to the generosity of our alumni, friends and supporters.

Your support helps us to reach the most talented students and ensure that they can thrive at Cambridge, whatever their background. It sustains and advances world-leading historical teaching and research. And it gives our students vital financial resources to overcome barriers to learning.

There are many ways you can support us. Gifts at all levels are gratefully received.

Sir Chris Clark

Regius Professor of History:

“Studying History is about developing the toolkit you need to understand change. Everything is transitional, everything is in flux, and never more than in our time. History reflects on how change happens, how people in the past overcame it, mastered it, or were mastered by it.”

Donate online

Targeted online donations enable the Faculty to achieve so much more.

Gifts at all levels are welcomed. Small-scale contributions can build up vital financial reserves to directly help our students with tuition fees, research costs, archival visits, and more.

£200 - £500 helps a History undergraduate with the costs of research for their coursework
£200 - £500 helps towards a postgraduate student’s field trip to an archive or library overseas
£5,000 could support a History undergraduate with living and learning costs for a year
£15,000 - £35,000 could fund a Master’s Studentship in History for a UK or overseas student
£10,000 - £31,000 could fund a PhD Studentship in History for a UK or overseas student
£1 million will fund a History Faculty Lectureship for 10 years

Make an online gift to support the Faculty

Join our global community

We are always delighted to hear from our former students across the world.

Our thriving alumni network connects graduates and friends across generations, industries and professions.

Cambridge alumni and former postdocs receive great benefits, from free access to online academic resources to lifelong learning opportunities at discounted rates, and more. To ensure you have full access to this lifelong community:

connect with other History alumni via LinkedIn
update your contact details and/or register to receive our newsletters
explore the University’s exclusive line-up of events designed for alumni
find your local alumni group for networking or advice
contact us to arrange a reunion or visit to the Faculty

Legacies

For more than 800 years, gifts in wills have been fundamental to Cambridge.

You can direct your gift towards any aspect of Cambridge life. By leaving a legacy to the Faculty of History, you could help us to flourish far into the future.

Support the Faculty in your will

Cambridge in America

If you are a US taxpayer, you may prefer to make a tax-efficient gift to Cambridge in America, a registered 501(c)(3) organisation that benefits the University, its member Colleges, Faculties and Departments. There are many ways you can make a gift.

We are grateful for your support - please state that you would like to direct your gift to the History Faculty when donating.

Make a gift to Cambridge in America

Further opportunities

To discuss your philanthropic goals or explore opportunities for collaborative investment, please contact:

Mark Williams, Alumni and Development Associate Director — Humanities and Social Sciences mark.williams@admin.cam.ac.uk

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