How to Read Foreign-language Sources in 80 Days: Helping History Students Get the Most out of Translation Software

by rhsadministration | 20 Jul 2026 | Guest Posts, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

    In this post Dr Jasper Heinzen reflects on the design and implementation of his recent project, ‘How to Read Foreign-language Sources in 80 Days: Helping Students Get the Most out of Translation Software’. This project, run at the University...

Interpreting Ruins in the Country Estate: A Toolkit

by rhsadministration | 09 Jan 2026 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

    In this post Claire Kennan introduces ‘Interpreting Ruins in the Country Estate’ , a new toolkit for those concerned with the preservation, study and promotion of historical ruins. This new resource develops from a workshop, funded by the Royal...

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 helias | 29 Jul 2024 | 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....