Piloting responsible and effective use of generative AI in undergraduate History Teaching

by royalhistsoc | 16 Jul 2025 | AI, History and Historians, General, Guest Posts, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

    How do UK history undergraduates routinely use generative AI in the classroom? In this post David Clayton, Henrice Altink and Esther Wilson (University of York) review the findings of their recent research project: ‘Piloting the responsible and...

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...

Gen AI, History and Historians

by royalhistsoc | 11 Jul 2024 | AI, History and Historians, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

  In this post Dr Adam Budd, Secretary for Education on the RHS Council, introduces our panel discussion on ‘AI, History and Historians’, which took place on Wednesday 17 July. Adam’s post, written before the event was held, discusses the opportunities this...

Generative AI, History and Historians, a reading guide

by royalhistsoc | 01 May 2024 | AI, History and Historians, General, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

  There are few bigger, and more pressing, topics today than the current and future impact of Generative AI. Nowhere is this more evident than in Higher Education. The opportunities and challenges of GenAI are relevant to all those engaged in teaching and...