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The Future of (Teaching) the Past

The Future of (Teaching) the Past

by royalhistsoc | 28 May 2021 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules, Teaching Portal: Main Blog, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

What happens when a university lab-based Digital History module goes online due to lockdown? You might think the imposed digital switch would be straightforward for ‘born digital’ digital history students. But as Dr Jessica van Horssen of Leeds Beckett...
Creating an Online Community: A Pre-Pandemic Initiative

Creating an Online Community: A Pre-Pandemic Initiative

by Katherine Foxhall | 22 Apr 2021 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules, Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Professor Marjory Harper won the 2020 RHS Jinty Nelson Award for Inspirational Teaching and Supervision in History. Here, she reflects on the process of planning an online Master’s Programme in Scottish Heritage in 2017. The RHS annual teaching prizes recognise...
Putting the Past in its Place: Teaching Environmental History in the Age of the Anthropocene

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’

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...
Teaching with BME Students

Teaching with BME Students

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

The cohort of students who study History at SOAS is one of the most diverse in the UK but the findings of the RHS’s Race and Equality Report have been highly pertinent to departmental discussions about inclusive pedagogy. Dr Eleanor Newbigin, Senior Lecturer in the...
Teaching Black and South Asian British Histories

Teaching Black and South Asian British Histories

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Race, Ethnicity and Equality, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

In the current political juncture, we are witnessing wide-ranging calls to decolonise the curriculum. Many are now campaigning to ensure that history teaching within the UK incorporates histories of British imperialism and, more specifically, Black British History....
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