STUDENT NUMBERS FOR HISTORY A-LEVELS, GCSEs, AND SCOTTISH ADVANCED HIGHER, HIGHER AND NATIONAL 5 EXAMS, 2024

by | 28 Aug 2024 | Advocacy and Policy, General, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

    August is exam results season in the UK. In 2024, A-Level results, for students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, were released on 15 August. They followed the 2024 results for Scottish Higher, Advanced Higher and National 5 exams published on 6...

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: from the editor

by | 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 | 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 | 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...

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

by | 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...

Letters Home: the Correspondence of Allen Leeper, 1908-1912

by | 16 Jul 2024 | Camden Series, General, RHS Publications

  In this post David Hayton introduces his new volume in the Royal Historical Society’s Camden Series, Allen Leeper’s Letters Home, 1908–1912. An Irish-Australian at Edwardian Oxford. Allen Leeper, Oxford undergraduate and future Foreign Office mandarin,...