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 Students’ Use of Gen-AI

by | 29 Jul 2024 | AI, History and Historians, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

  What do History students think of Gen AI? Over the past academic year, Neville Morley has been working with History and Ancient History students at the University of Exeter to better understand their experience of, and attitude to, GenAI for their studies In...

A Balanced Argument? Communicating the Power of Argument to History Undergraduates

by | 14 May 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

  In March 2024, the Royal Historical Society visited historians at the Universities of York and York St John. The event included a panel discussion on the subject of communicating History to different audiences. In this post, Dr Elizabeth Goodwin (York St John)...

Studying history in a secure environment: legacies, challenges, opportunities

by | 10 Oct 2022 | Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

  In July, Rosalind Crone was awarded this year’s Royal Historical Society’s Innovation in Teaching Prize, for the creation of Exploring the History of Prisoner Education, an open online course for the Open University which launched in October 2022....

New to Teaching History 2022: An Interactive Workshop, Part 7 – ‘Coordinating Large Classes in History’

by | 01 Oct 2022 | New to Teaching, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

In September 2022 the Royal Historical Society, in partnership with History UK, hosted ‘New to Teaching, 2022’: an online Workshop in which 8 university lecturers provided seminars for those new to teaching History in UK Higher Education. The Workshop...

Applying and Interviewing for your First History Lectureship

by | 15 Mar 2022 | Online Events, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Careers, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: Main Blog, Teaching Portal: Transitions in HE

      About this event ‘Applying for your First Job: a Guide to Preparing and Interviewing for a History Teaching Post’ is part in the Royal Historical Society’s series of online training events designed for early career historians. This session was...