Facing current challenges can be a vital part of our curriculum

by | 27 Sep 2021 | Advocacy and Policy, General, Guest Posts

At a time of already great disruption, historians at Aston University this year faced the threat of departmental closure and redundancy. Public and private support for Aston historians led to the programme’s survival, though colleagues at Aston and historians...

Meet the RHS President – Professor Emma Griffin

by | 01 Feb 2021 | General

On 27 November 2020, Professor Emma Griffin formally began her term as the new President of the Royal Historical Society. Here, Emma reflects on taking up this position in a period of great uncertainty for the historical profession. It was just over thirteen months...

Smiling in the Age of Coronavirus

by | 15 Dec 2020 | Guest Posts

Colin Jones, author of The Smile Revolution in eighteenth-century Paris (Oxford University Press, 2014) and former President of the Royal Historical Society considers the long history of smiling, and asks what the future might hold for this most expressive of gestures...

Teaching Materials for Low-Tech Online Teaching: Planning for Social Distancing

by | 27 Nov 2020 | General

In this guest post, the first of two looking at low-tech materials for online teaching, Dr Mary Morrissey, Associate Professor in Early Modern English Literature at the University of Reading, offers advice to teachers about the different teaching materials to use to...

Bridging ‘Digital Divides’ in Virtual Teaching

by | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers

We should not assume that others interact with the digital world in the same way as we do ourselves. In this post Dr Andrew Smith and Dr Mary Morrissey consider the challenges that many students encounter when required to engage with online teaching.  As noted by...