Becoming a Historian: an Informal Guide

by royalhistsoc | 18 May 2022 | General, Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Careers, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

    How do we undertake a major historical research project for the first time? What should we do to ensure that a project’s completed? How do we best engage in debate about our own, and others’, work? How can we apply historical understanding to...

Ten Tips for Getting Published in Academic Journals

by Administrator | 17 Aug 2021 | General, RHS Work, Teaching Portal: For Students, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

On Wednesday 21 July 2021 the Royal Historical Society hosted the first in a new series of training workshops for Post-Graduate and Early Career Historians: ‘Getting Published: a guide to first articles and journal publishing’. The event brought together...

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...

Launching the new RHS Teaching Portal

by royalhistsoc | 30 Nov 2020 | RHS Work, Teaching Portal: Main Blog

The Royal Historical Society launches its new online Teaching Portal today. Ken Fincham and Peter d’Sena, former and current RHS Vice Presidents for Education, who have led the portal’s working group, explain more: The Royal Historical Society is...

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...