RHS LGBT+ Survey 2019

by | 01 Jul 2019 | LGBT+, RHS Work

The Royal Historical Society Working Group on LGBT+ histories and historians  has launched its survey of historians, including students. We want to find out more about the research, teaching and dissemination of LGBT+ histories, as well as the experience of LGBT+...

Writing a History Textbook: Seven Things I’ve Learnt

by | 20 Jun 2019 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

Matthew McCormack has recently finished writing Citizenship and Gender in Britain, 1688-1928.  A textbook aimed at the student market, it will be published by Routledge in June 2019. In this post for Historical Transactions, Matthew shares how the process differed...

Putting History in its Place at The University of Chester

by | 16 Apr 2019 | Guest Posts, Teaching Portal

Since 2014 the Department of History & Archaeology at the University of Chester has been rediscovering its specialism in the history of place, space, and landscape. Hosting the Royal Historical Society Symposium in 2017 played an important part in that process....

Royal Historical Society Responds to TEF Review

by | 19 Mar 2019 | RHS Work

The Royal Historical Society has responded to the government’s independent review of TEF. First introduced by the government in England in 2017, and open to all UK higher education providers, the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) is...

New Camden Volume on Elizabethan Family

by | 14 Jan 2019 | RHS Publications

Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran Cruz describes the extraordinary insights into an Elizabethan family provided in her new volume in our Camden Series of edited primary sources, and how she has used its material in undergraduate teaching and for training graduate students. My new...