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....

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 | General, Guest Posts

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...