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...

Finding Women’s History in Schools – challenges for the curriculum review

by royalhistsoc | 30 Mar 2025 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

    Women’s and gender history are well-established and vibrant fields of research. In schools, by contrast, the presence of women is far more limited, especially for those teaching and studying the pre-modern period. In this post, Natasha Hodgson...

History and Sustainability: Learning together with ICT students

by royalhistsoc | 05 Sep 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

    In this post, Laura Harrison describes her recent project at the University of the West of England to introduce History content to undergraduate courses in Information, Communications and Technology (ICT). As Laura notes, historians think long and hard...

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

by royalhistsoc | 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...

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...