Tips on Using Bibliographic Software

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

Linda Robertson, who has extensive experience working as a librarian, offers her views on the advantages of using technological aids for bibliographic research. In this post, she gives a detailed analysis about how to use the bibliographic software EndNote as a useful...

Bridging ‘Digital Divides’ in Virtual Teaching

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

We should not assume that others interact with the digital world in the same way as we do ourselves. In this post Dr Andrew Smith and Dr Mary Morrissey consider the challenges that many students encounter when required to engage with online teaching.  As noted by...

Finding historical sources for the first time

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

In this guest post, Dr Mary Morrissey, Associate Professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Reading, offers some starting points and advice to those who are using historical sources for the first time. She points the reader to some online...

The Anatomy of a Thesis

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

In this post, historian Dr Andrew Foster provides research students with a general guide about the main elements of writing up a PhD thesis. The advice Dr Foster gives is based on years of discussions with research students in seminars and workshops about the...

Online Resources: Ancient Greek and Roman History

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Ancient Greek-English Lexicon  https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/glp/introduction This resource provides researchers with access to a two-volume lexicon, which covers the most widely read ancient literary texts, from Homer to the Hellenistic poets,...

Online Resources: European History

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

The Baudelaire Song Project  https://www.baudelairesong.org/ The resource hosts a database of all the song settings produced over Charles Baudelaire’s poetry through classical music and popular music settings, in French and in other translations, in musical scores and...