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...
by royalhistsoc | 13 Oct 2020 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers
In September, Amanda Power spoke to the RHS Education Policy Committee about putting climate into the history curriculum. In this post for the RHS blog, which draws on that presentation, she considers how we might develop history curricula to integrate climate, and...
by royalhistsoc | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Resources, Teaching Portal: For Teachers
Using correct pronouns for non-binary and trans people is a simple indication of acknowledgement and respect. Gendered appearance does not reliably tell you about a person’s gender. Checking which pronouns to use, and then doing so consistently, is an easy way to...
by shahmimaakhtar | 29 Jul 2020 | Race Update, Teaching Portal: For Teachers
Using testimony from sixteen interview respondents across academia, activism and policy, this HEPI Report addresses the common misconceptions about decolonisation and recommends a series of practical steps towards its implementation. It argues that decolonisation is...
by royalhistsoc | 07 Jul 2020 | Online Events, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers
From 23-30 April 2020, the RHS hosted its first Virtual Curriculum conference. The event had originally been designed as a one-day workshop to be held in the RHS offices on 23 April. Instead, registered participants were invited to read, watch and listen to a range of...
by royalhistsoc | 29 Jun 2020 | RHS Publications, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: For Teachers
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...