Working in Archives

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. Mary explains how to locate archival information, understanding how...

Tips on Using Bibliographic Software

by emgregory2020 | 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...

Finding historical sources for the first time

by emgregory2020 | 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 royalhistsoc | 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...

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH): A Guide for Teachers and Students

by royalhistsoc | 29 Jun 2020 | RHS Publications, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (known as ‘BBIH’) is the most comprehensive and up-to-date record of what’s been published in British and Irish history.  It currently includes records of 620,000 books, journal articles, edited collections, book chapters...