Recognising History Teaching in Schools

by | 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...

Race Update 5 – Grade Predictions and Assessment during Covid-19

by | 06 Apr 2020 | Race Update

Following the government decision to cancel summer examinations, this year’s GCSE and A-Level grades will be predicted by teachers and normalised by a nationally applied formula. This blog outlines the debates prompted by this decision which focus around fears of...

Room for Zoom? Tips for Securing Online Meetings

by | 02 Apr 2020 | RHS Work

What steps can we take to help ensure that our online conversations and personal data are secure, in a period of rapid and unplanned change? This blog post is a product of ongoing discussions at the RHS about how best to modernise our communications while keeping our...

Beyond LGBT+ History Month – an update on the RHS survey.

by | 28 Feb 2020 | LGBT+, RHS Work

As many of you will remember, last year the RHS ran their LGBT+ Histories and Historians survey. Professor Frances Andrews provides an update on the working group’s progress. Between July and September 2019, the Royal Historical Society’s LGBT+ survey...

Race Update 1 – Highlights from 2019 Reports

by | 16 Jan 2020 | Race Update

Welcome to the first post of the new RHS Race Update blog series! In this new series, Dr Shahmima Akhtar, Past & Present Fellow for the Royal Historical Society’s Race, Ethnicity & Equality in History initiative will post on subjects related to race, ethnicity...