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

by royalhistsoc | 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)...

Generative AI, History and Historians, a reading guide

by royalhistsoc | 01 May 2024 | AI, History and Historians, General, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

  There are few bigger, and more pressing, topics today than the current and future impact of Generative AI. Nowhere is this more evident than in Higher Education. The opportunities and challenges of GenAI are relevant to all those engaged in teaching and...

Teaching Soviet History from the Borderlands: A Case Study of Belarus and Ukraine

by royalhistsoc | 30 Jan 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

  How can we ‘decolonise the curriculum’ when it comes to the history of the Soviet Union? How do we decentralise our historical approach to former-Soviet states? In this post Natalya Chernyshova discusses the importance of these questions for modern...

Student numbers for History A-Levels and Scottish Highers, 2023

by royalhistsoc | 22 Aug 2023 | Advocacy and Policy, General, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

    The 2023 A-Level results, for students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, were released on 17 August 2023. They follow the 2023 results for Scottish Highers, published on 8 August. Both sets of data allow for observations on the uptake and relative...

Teaching the early modern Islamic World

by royalhistsoc | 22 Dec 2022 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog, Writing Race Two

  In July 2022, Peter Good received one of two Jinty Nelson Teaching Awards given annually by the Royal Historical Society. In this post, for the Society’s ‘Teaching Portal’, Peter reflects on his classroom practice, and how he seeks to...

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

by royalhistsoc | 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....