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...

Online Resources: Modern Britain (1900-present)

by emgregory2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Archigram Archival Project  http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/ This resource enables researchers to search through an online database of the architectural group Archigram (1961-1974), who were “amongst the most seminal, iconoclastic and influential architectural...

Past Time: A Learning Resource about Victorian Prisons

by royalhistsoc | 23 Apr 2020 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

Historians and specialists in Arts in criminal justice settings have developed a learning resource to bring prison history and archival materials alive through creative methods. In this guest post, Hilary Marland describes the process of collaborating with a theatre...

Teaching History in a Digital Age

by swebbdh | 12 Sep 2019 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

Digital transformations in society and culture have fundamentally changed the historian’s relationship with the past.  So how do we incorporate this into our teaching? In this post for Historical Transactions, Dr Sharon Webb and Dr James Baker, winners of the...

Beyond This Day – 8 August 1940: Popular History and the Power Sisters

by lc449 | 08 Aug 2019 | Guest Posts

The historian Eileen Power died on 8 August 1940. In this blog post, Dr Laura Carter examines the historical legacy of Rhoda Power, Eileen’s younger sister (pictured above). In the decades following Eileen’s death, Rhoda continued to shape popular social...