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...

Putting History in its Place at The University of Chester

by | 16 Apr 2019 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

Since 2014 the Department of History & Archaeology at the University of Chester has been rediscovering its specialism in the history of place, space, and landscape. Hosting the Royal Historical Society Symposium in 2017 played an important part in that process....

Global History for Schools

by | 09 Oct 2018 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

October is Black History Month, and following on from our Global History Symposium this summer, Prof. Miles Larmer introduces the Oxford History Faculty’s new range of resources for schools, designed to help them offer a more diverse curriculum. How do we create...