Innovations in Teaching History

• Introduction
  Ruth Larsen, Alice Marples and Matthew McCormack
• Part I Digital History
• 1 Letting Students Loose in the Archive: Reflections on Teaching “At the Court of King George: Exploring the Royal Archives” at King’s College London
  Arthur Burns and Oliver Walton
• 2 Introducing Australian Students to British History and Research Methods Via Digital Sources
  Simon Burrows and Rebekah Ward
• Part II History in the Classroom
• 3 Sensational Pedagogy: Teaching the Sensory Eighteenth Century
  William Tullett
• 4 Let’s Talk About Sex: “BAD” Approaches to Teaching the Histories of Gender and Sexualities
  Ruth Larsen
• 5 Engaging Students with Political History: Citizenship in the (Very) Long Eighteenth Century
  Matthew McCormack
• Part III Material Culture and Museum Collections
• 6 Beyond “Great White Men”: Teaching Histories of Science, Empire and Heritage through Collections Alice Marples
• 7 Teaching Eighteenth-Century Classical Reception through University Museum Collections
  Lenia Kouneni

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Ruth Larsen (Editor)

Ruth Larsen is the programme leader for undergraduate history programmes at the University of Derby, where she teaches on a number of different modules that explore eighteenth-century history, gender history, the history of the body and material culture studies. She has published a number of articles and chapters on the history of the country house, aristocratic women, and the history of letter writing. She is on the steering committee of the East Midlands Centre for History Learning and Teaching.

Alice Marples (Editor)

Alice Marples is Research and Postgraduate Development Manager at The British Library, and a historian of science and medicine in Britain and its colonial networks, c.1650-1850. Since obtaining her PhD in Early Modern History at King’s College London in 2016, she has held research positions at the University of Manchester, the University of Oxford, and the Royal Society. Her first book, The Transactioneer: Hans Sloane and the Rise of Public Natural History in Eighteenth-Century Britain, is forthcoming with Johns Hopkins University Press.

Matthew McCormack (Editor)

Matthew McCormack is Professor of History and Head of the Graduate School at the University of Northampton. He has published widely on British history, his most recent book being Citizenship and Gender in Britain, 1688–1928 (Routledge, 2019), and has also published on pedagogy. He has taught a range of modules relating to eighteenth-century Britain, and also on historical methods, research skills and historiography. He is currently President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

‘The skills imparted by an undergraduate history degree are both timeless and constantly changing. This volume brings together seven innovative examples of how historians of the 18th century are changing pedagogy to meet the challenge of teaching with objects and texts – real, digital and sensational – online and in person. It is essential reading for anyone who thinks seriously about history and how we teach it.’

— Tim Hitchcock, Professor Emeritus of Digital History, University of Sussex, UK

Innovations in Teaching History: Eighteenth-Century Studies in Higher Education consists of collected contributions from nine UK and Australian-based specialists of Britain’s “long eighteenth century” (1688–1832). Given these geographical and temporal origins, the question arises: Should this book find a wider readership with the audience of the AHR? The answer is a resounding yes. When allowances for the educational terminology unique to the UK are made, readers will find that the lessons offered here have a wide and general application … Perhaps the most truly innovative thing about this volume concerns the conditions of its commercial availability. The authors are offering it under a Creative Commons license, and for free! There is really no excuse, then, for scholars of all areas not to seek out this useful collection.

—Timothy Jenks, East Carolina University, North Carolina, USA

American Historical Reviews

Published amidst serious questions around learning and teaching, student engagement, and the ‘value’ of the humanities, this edited collection … proves highly timely, drawing attention to an often forgotten, less overtly distinct, period of historical study. … This volume offers an important and useful space to find innovative teaching and learning practices, many of which could be usefully applied across all historical teaching practices. This makes Innovations in Teaching History a timely publication that should be at the top of any list of reading materials, not just for scholars teaching the eighteenth century but those teaching history in any capacity.

— Rachel Bynoth, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK

The Journal of Eighteenth Century Studies

Subject: History, Modern History

BISAC codes: HIS035000, HIS037050

Thema codes: JNU, NHA, YPJH

Keywords: guide, historical studies, pedagogical, practical, strategies, teachers

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