After having been founded through a three-year Leverhulme Trust Research Interchange Grant, IVHHN is now an independent organisation and an IAVCEI Commission. For the next two years we have funding from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, who have awarded IVHHN a Special Award of £10,000. IVHHN is grateful both to the Leverhulme Trust for our initial grant and to the Royal Commission for supporting us now.