History and Sustainability: Learning together with ICT students

by royalhistsoc | 05 Sep 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

    In this post, Laura Harrison describes her recent project at the University of the West of England to introduce History content to undergraduate courses in Information, Communications and Technology (ICT). As Laura notes, historians think long and hard...

New directions for History teaching: insights from the RHS Teaching fellowships 2023-24

by royalhistsoc | 07 Aug 2024 | General, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

  Launched in 2023, the Royal Historical Society’s Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships support historians in UK Higher Education who wish to introduce new approaches to their teaching. Fellowships may also support those seeking to undertake a short study of...

Towards a creative antifascist pedagogy: zine-making in the classroom

by royalhistsoc | 01 Aug 2024 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Fellowships, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

  In this post, Amy King discusses her innovative teaching methods on far-right political groups, past and present. Amy’s undergraduate modules explore the themes of this topic, the ways in which far-right ideologies are distributed, and limitations in use...

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...

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...