Archives and Research Libraries in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

    This is a list of archives and research libraries in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. The list is divided into sub-categories to make it easier to find which archives or libraries you are interested in visiting, including cathedral libraries,...

Teaching Black and South Asian British Histories

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

In the current political juncture, we are witnessing wide-ranging calls to decolonise the curriculum. Many are now campaigning to ensure that history teaching within the UK incorporates histories of British imperialism and, more specifically, Black British History....

‘Imagined Communities’: Regionalism and Minority Nationalism in Modern Europe

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

In this guest post, Dr Andrew Smith, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History & Politics at the University of Chichester, shares and reflects on a module he created for undergraduate-level students at university. The module introduced students to unfamiliar...

Teaching World History

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

What does world history look like if you approach it through a BA History programme focused on the histories of Asia, Africa and the Middle East? What are the challenges of introducing such an approach to students who have, up until they join the programme, largely...

Supervising PhD Students: A Collaborative Approach

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

In July 2018, Professor Julie Anderson, Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent, was the first winner of the Royal Historical Society’s Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching and Supervision in History. Here she provides an account of her...

Working in Archives

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

In this post, Dr Mary Morrissey, Associate Professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Reading, offers advice to those who are beginning to work with historical archives. Mary explains how to locate archival information, understanding how...