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....

New to Teaching History 2022: An Interactive Workshop, Part 6 – ‘Creativity in History Curricula’

by royalhistsoc | 29 Sep 2022 | New to Teaching, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

In September 2022 the Royal Historical Society, in partnership with History UK, organised an interactive workshop hosted by Professor Jamie Wood (Lincoln). This workshop aimed to open discussions on the challenges and opportunities of teaching History at UK...

New to Teaching History 2022: An Interactive Workshop, Part 5 – ‘Module Design and Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities’

by royalhistsoc | 25 Sep 2022 | New to Teaching, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

In September 2022 the Royal Historical Society, in partnership with History UK, organised an interactive workshop hosted by Professor Jamie Wood (Lincoln). This workshop aimed to open discussions on the challenges and opportunities of teaching History at UK...

New to Teaching History 2022: An Interactive Workshop, Part 3 – ‘Small Group Teaching in History’

by royalhistsoc | 23 Sep 2022 | New to Teaching, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

In September 2022 the Royal Historical Society, in partnership with History UK, organised an interactive workshop hosted by Professor Jamie Wood (Lincoln). This workshop aimed to open discussions on the challenges and opportunities of teaching History at UK...

Putting the Past in its Place: Teaching Environmental History in the Age of the Anthropocene

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

In this post, Karen Jones, Professor of Environmental and Cultural History at the University of Kent, provides a brief methodological introduction to the field of environmental history, together with a short reflection on teaching innovation and practice. She draws...

Small Group Teaching in a Large Class: ‘Understanding History’

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

In this post Dr Marcus Collins, Senior Lecturer in Cultural History at the University of Loughborough, shares his knowledge and experience of teaching the course ‘Understanding History’, a compulsory module for second-year undergraduates which aims to...