Small Group Teaching in a Large Class: ‘Understanding History’

by royalhistsoc | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: For Teachers, Teaching Portal: Innovative Modules

In this post Dr Marcus Collins, Senior Lecturer in Cultural History at the University of Loughborough, shares his knowledge and experience of teaching the course ‘Understanding History’, a compulsory module for second-year undergraduates which aims to...

Climate in the History Curriculum

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...

Integrating Histories – Craig Griffiths

by royalhistsoc | 28 Sep 2020 | LGBT+ Project: Personal Reflections

Dr Craig Griffiths is Lecturer in Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a historian of twentieth-century Europe, specialising in modern German history, queer history and the history of sexuality. He is a co-founder and convenor of the History of...

Queer History in Northern Ireland – Tom Hulme

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...

From Margins to Centre?: An Undergraduate Conference on Marginalised Histories

by royalhistsoc | 09 Jul 2020 | Guest Posts, LGBT+, Race, Ethnicity and Equality

On 28 February the University of York hosted a one-day conference to explore marginalised histories and the intersectionality between them, with a particular focus on LGBT+ history, women’s history, BME history, and history of disability. The event was aimed...