Some good reasons why History really matters

We’d like to thank Rachel Best and Leanne Smith, current and former students of History at the University of Sunderland, for contributing to this blog post, and Dr Sarah Hellawell (Sunderland) for encouraging them to share their experiences with History Continue reading Some good reasons why History really matters

Not just ‘Hello, we love you’: Interview with Chris A. Williams

While we were researching the Pandemic Pedagogy Handbook, one of the people who offered really useful advice was Chris A. Williams, who is Senior Lecturer in History at the Open University. More recently, Chris kindly agreed to an interview with Continue reading Not just ‘Hello, we love you’: Interview with Chris A. Williams

Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching History Online Through Material Culture

In the next in our series of #PandemicPedagogy posts, Leonie Hannan (Queen’s University Belfast @leoniehannan) and Sarah Longair (University of Lincoln, @sclongair) – authors of History through Material Culture (Manchester University Press, 2017) – discuss the challenges of teaching History Continue reading Pandemic Pedagogy: Teaching History Online Through Material Culture

Pandemic Pedagogy – Using discussion boards to boost student engagement

Over the next few weeks we will be publishing series of posts that build on our work on the Pandemic Pedagogy Handbook to keep the conversation around innovative online teaching in History going. In this first post in the series, Continue reading Pandemic Pedagogy – Using discussion boards to boost student engagement

Panic Not: The Pandemic Pedagogy Handbook

In 2020 History departments suddenly had to think seriously about how to move teaching online. For most, this ‘emergency phase’ was a daunting and challenging time, but for some historians, there was also a sense of cautious excitement.  As a Continue reading Panic Not: The Pandemic Pedagogy Handbook