A Balanced Argument? Communicating the Power of Argument to History Undergraduates

by royalhistsoc | 14 May 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

  In March 2024, the Royal Historical Society visited historians at the Universities of York and York St John. The event included a panel discussion on the subject of communicating History to different audiences. In this post, Dr Elizabeth Goodwin (York St John)...

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...

Hit songs in seventeenth-century England

by royalhistsoc | 09 Apr 2024 | General, Guest Posts

  What makes for a hit song? In this post Christopher Marsh introduces the 100 Ballads project, a study of the most successful broadside ballads of seventeenth-century England. ‘100 Ballads’ was released online earlier this year. It brings together...

REF2029 AND OPEN ACCESS: A GUIDE TO THE CURRENT PROPOSALS FOR PUBLICATIONS

by royalhistsoc | 26 Mar 2024 | General

  The UK’s four higher education funding bodies are currently planning the terms of the next Research Excellence Framework (REF) which is due to conclude in 2029. In mid-March, REF2029 announced a consultation relating to its Open Access Policy. The policy...

Who reads history blogs?

by royalhistsoc | 07 Feb 2024 | General, Guest Posts

  Digital communications are central to how we communicate, debate, teach and assess understanding of the past. In this post, David Geiringer goes back to one of the earliest, and most resilient, of these formats — the blog — to consider its...

Teaching Soviet History from the Borderlands: A Case Study of Belarus and Ukraine

by royalhistsoc | 30 Jan 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

  How can we ‘decolonise the curriculum’ when it comes to the history of the Soviet Union? How do we decentralise our historical approach to former-Soviet states? In this post Natalya Chernyshova discusses the importance of these questions for modern...