Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: from the editor

by royalhistsoc | 20 Aug 2024 | General, Guest Posts, RHS Publications

  In this post, Jan Machielsen, editor of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society reflects on his first six months in the role and looks ahead to forthcoming content in the journal. Published by Cambridge University Press, Transactions is the Society’s...

New directions for History teaching: insights from the RHS Teaching fellowships 2023-24

by royalhistsoc | 07 Aug 2024 | General, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

  Launched in 2023, the Royal Historical Society’s Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships support historians in UK Higher Education who wish to introduce new approaches to their teaching. Fellowships may also support those seeking to undertake a short study of...

Towards a creative antifascist pedagogy: zine-making in the classroom

by royalhistsoc | 01 Aug 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

  In this post, Amy King discusses her innovative teaching methods on far-right political groups, past and present. Amy’s undergraduate modules explore the themes of this topic, the ways in which far-right ideologies are distributed, and limitations in use...

History Students’ Use of Gen-AI

by royalhistsoc | 29 Jul 2024 | AI, History and Historians, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

  What do History students think of Gen AI? Over the past academic year, Neville Morley has been working with History and Ancient History students at the University of Exeter to better understand their experience of, and attitude to, GenAI for their studies In...

‘AI, History and Historians’: watch or listen to our panel discussion, held in July 2024

by royalhistsoc | 17 Jul 2024 | AI, History and Historians, General

Video and audio recordings of the Royal Historical Society’s latest event — ‘AI, History and Historians’ — are now available. This discussion (held on 17 July 2024) brought together a panel of experts to consider the opportunities and challenges of new AI technology...