by royalhistsoc | 25 May 2021 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers
Dr John Cooper was runner-up in the 2020 RHS Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching and Supervision in History. Here, he reflects on the importance of open dialogue in teaching: between undergraduate year groups, who’ve much to teach one another, and...
by Katherine Foxhall | 12 Apr 2021 | RHS Publications, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers
Recent data protection laws, implemented across Europe in 2018, have implications for academic researchers. The Royal Historical Society recently published a set of guidelines to help researchers navigate the legal requirements around data protection. Here, Dr...
by emgregory2020 | 14 Dec 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students
In this post, Dr Andrew Foster offers guidance to PhD research students about how to make sense of their research during the PhD process. His guidance offers to encourage students through the highs and lows of research, and poses a series of questions to support...
by emgregory2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: Transitions in HE
There are many funding opportunities for history researchers to apply for in the UK and internationally, including research and travel grants, and library fellowships. Funding grants and fellowship opportunities are advertised across the year, although some have...
by emgregory2020 | 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, private...
by emgregory2020 | 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. She explains how to locate archival information, understanding how archival...