History UK’s Pandemic Pedagogy initiative – starts today!

Over the past few weeks members of the HUK Steering Committee, coordinated by Prof. Kate Cooper (Royal Holloway) have been putting together a project to support historians as we move out of the ‘emergency’ phase of online teaching and start Continue reading History UK’s Pandemic Pedagogy initiative – starts today!

2020 Academic Job Boot Camp 

UPDATE – 2nd April 2020 – Please note that the academic boot camp has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 situation – we hope to run the event again in 2021, so please do check back for further news.  Academic Continue reading 2020 Academic Job Boot Camp 

History UK statement on the closure of History at the University of Sunderland

It was with a feeling of dismay that History UK learnt of the decision of the University of Sunderland to close programmes in History. We will not comment on the factors that may have led to Sunderland’s failure to recruit Continue reading History UK statement on the closure of History at the University of Sunderland

History UK Research Impact Workshop 2019

Dr Neil Fleming, Principal Lecturer at the University of Worcester, has provided the following post on our last annual research event on impact, which was held at the IHR in September 2019. What is research impact? The rapidly changing environment Continue reading History UK Research Impact Workshop 2019

Report – Teaching American History: Secondary School Teachers Panel at the 2019 BrANCH Annual Conference

We are delighted to share a report from the association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians (BrANCH), who received some funding from History UK to run an event at their conference this autumn: Building relationships with secondary schools has long Continue reading Report – Teaching American History: Secondary School Teachers Panel at the 2019 BrANCH Annual Conference