Making sense of your research

by emgregory2020 | 14 Dec 2020 | Teaching Portal, Teaching Portal: For Students

In this post, Dr Andrew Foster offers guidance to PhD research students about how to make sense of their research during the PhD process. His guidance offers to encourage students through the highs and lows of research, and poses a series of questions to support...

The Anatomy of a Thesis

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

In this post, historian Dr Andrew Foster provides research students with a general guide about the main elements of writing up a PhD thesis. The advice Dr Foster gives is based on years of discussions with research students in seminars and workshops about the...

Online Resources: Victorian Britain

by emgregory2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | Teaching Portal: Online Resources

Brunel Collection: Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859) Papers  https://www.bristol.ac.uk/library/special-collections/strengths/brunel/ The resource contains a diverse collection of material relating to Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Researchers can search through the online...

A Cultural History of Irish Identity on Display

by shahmimaakhtar | 31 Jul 2019 | Guest Posts, Race, Ethnicity and Equality, RHS Work

Shahmima Akhtar joined the Royal Historical Society in July 2019 as Past and Present Fellow: Race, Ethnicity & Equality in History. Over the next two years Shahmima will work with the Royal Historical Society and the Institute for Historical Research to advance...

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...