Bridging ‘Digital Divides’ in Virtual Teaching

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

We should not assume that others interact with the digital world in the same way as we do ourselves. In this post Dr Andrew Smith and Dr Mary Morrissey consider the challenges that many students encounter when required to engage with online teaching.  As noted by...

The Anatomy of a Thesis

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

In this post, historian Dr Andrew Foster provides research students with a general guide about the main elements of writing up a PhD thesis. The advice Dr Foster gives is based on years of discussions with research students in seminars and workshops about the...

RHS Race, Ethnicity and Equality Roadmap for Change II

by royalhistsoc | 25 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Publications, RHS Work

Header Image: The sculpture “A Surge of Power (Jen Reid)” by British artist Marc Quinn stands on the plinth in Bristol where the statue of the seventeenth-century merchant and slave-trader Edward Colston had been since 1895. The statue of Colston was...

Half-Meetings: Indian Emotional Responses to World War Two

by royalhistsoc | 18 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Work

Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War. Their experiences have been little remembered, either in the UK where a European/US-centric memory of the war dominates, or in modern South Asia where nationalist histories...

From Cold-War Bunker to Art Fund Museum of the Year: Transforming Gairloch Museum

by royalhistsoc | 16 Nov 2020 | Guest Posts

On 12 October, during BBC’s UK-wide #MuseumPassion week, Gairloch Museum was announced as a winner of the highly prestigious Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020. Recognition of the success of an eight-year £2.4M project was a huge accolade for a small, volunteer-run,...