Gender-Neutral Pronouns

by | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Resources, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

Using correct pronouns for non-binary and trans people is a simple indication of acknowledgement and respect. Gendered appearance does not reliably tell you about a person’s gender. Checking which pronouns to use, and then doing so consistently, is an easy way to...

Beginning with Unfamiliarity – Justin Bengry

by | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Personal Reflections, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

Dr Justin Bengry is a cultural historian specialising in history of sexualities and the queer past. Lecturer in Queer History at Goldsmiths, University of London, he convenes the MA in Queer History,  the first masters course of its kind. He was the lead researcher on...

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH): A Guide for Teachers and Students

by | 29 Jun 2020 | RHS Publications, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (known as ‘BBIH’) is the most comprehensive and up-to-date record of what’s been published in British and Irish history.  It currently includes records of 620,000 books, journal articles, edited collections, book chapters...

Recognising History Teaching in Schools

by | 30 Apr 2020 | RHS Work, Teaching Portal

  In 2018, as part of its 150th anniversary celebrations, the Royal Historical Society committed to supporting the Historical Association’s Quality Mark scheme, by providing sponsored bursaries to enable more state-funded, non-selective secondary schools to...

Past Time: A Learning Resource about Victorian Prisons

by | 23 Apr 2020 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

Historians and specialists in Arts in criminal justice settings have developed a learning resource to bring prison history and archival materials alive through creative methods. In this guest post, Hilary Marland describes the process of collaborating with a theatre...

Writing a History Textbook: Seven Things I’ve Learnt

by | 20 Jun 2019 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

Matthew McCormack has recently finished writing Citizenship and Gender in Britain, 1688-1928.  A textbook aimed at the student market, it will be published by Routledge in June 2019. In this post for Historical Transactions, Matthew shares how the process differed...