Interpreting Ruins in the Country Estate: A Toolkit

by rhsadministration | 09 Jan 2026 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

    In this post Claire Kennan introduces ‘Interpreting Ruins in the Country Estate’ , a new toolkit for those concerned with the preservation, study and promotion of historical ruins. This new resource develops from a workshop, funded by the Royal...

Innovative approaches in teaching Welsh History

by rhsadministration | 27 Nov 2025 | General, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

    The profile of Welsh history is rising, with study in schools (focusing on Wales and the wider world) a mandatory part of the new Curriculum for Wales from 2022. At the same time, there are currently no dedicated forums to bring together those teaching...

Generative AI, History and Historians, a reading guide

by rhsadministration | 02 Oct 2025 | 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...

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

by | 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 | 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 | 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...