by royalhistsoc | 13 Oct 2020 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Teachers
In September, Amanda Power spoke to the RHS Education Policy Committee about putting climate into the history curriculum. In this post for the RHS blog, which draws on that presentation, she considers how we might develop history curricula to integrate climate, and...
by royalhistsoc | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Personal Reflections
Dr Tom Hulme is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. He is a specialist in urban culture (1880-1940), in Britain, the US and (most recently) Ireland; and the popular place of the past in...
by shahmimaakhtar | 22 Jun 2020 | Race Update
On the 18 June 2020, RHS hosted a Zoom discussion on predicted grades, university admissions and BME students, using History as an exemplar case. Following the government decision to cancel summer examinations, this year’s GCSE and A-Level grades will be predicted by...
by royalhistsoc | 30 Apr 2020 | RHS Work, Teaching Portal
In 2018, as part of its 150th anniversary celebrations, the Royal Historical Society committed to supporting the Historical Association’s Quality Mark scheme, by providing sponsored bursaries to enable more state-funded, non-selective secondary schools to...
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...