The Warburg Library is a research library providing support for students, academics and a national and international scholarly community. Short-Term Library Fellowships are available to scholars at all levels and all nationalities, including PhD candidates.
About the Library
A research library providing support for students, academics and a national and international scholarly community, the Library is open-access and consists of around 370,000 volumes, which are arranged thematically in a unique subject-order designed to facilitate interdisciplinary research. There are four main divisions:
- Action: social and political history
- Orientation: religion, history of science and philosophy
- Word: literature, books, libraries and education
- Image: history of art including classical art and archaeology.
Sub-divisions include for example the history of festivals and pageantry, the idea of Empire, historiography; the history of cosmology and astrology and their pictorial expression; ritual and myth, papacy, liturgy and religious orders; Platonic and Aristotelian traditions and Islamic and Judaic philosophy; theory of language and literature, emblematics, medieval Greek and Latin and neo-Latin literature, the reception of classical literature, classical and medieval themes in literature; Greek and Roman art and post-classical art to c. 1800, with special emphasis on iconography and the survival of ancient art; early Christian and Byzantine art (first floor and basement). There are c. 2,500 runs of periodicals, about half of them current. The electronic resources are currently expanding.
Warburg Library Travel Grants
Short-Term Library Fellowships are available to scholars at all levels and all nationalities, including PhD candidates. The stipend will be a fixed sum of £1,000.
Recipients will be required to attend the Library daily (Monday to Friday) for the duration of their award, where they will be allocated a desk, to be free of other significant professional obligations during their stay, and focus their research on the Library’s collections. Fellows will also have access to resources available in the University of London, including the Senate House Library, the Institute of Historical Research and Institute of Classical Studies libraries.
Please note Persons living in London or nearby (less than 70 miles) will not be considered for the award of a Fellowship.