Innovations in Teaching History: Eighteenth-Century Studies in Higher Education - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1908590610 ISBN 13: 9781908590619

Publisher: University of London Press, 2024

Synopsis

An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education, this collection of seven case studies reflects on how we teach the history of the long eighteenth century. It is grounded in real academic practice and focuses on the latest developments in the discipline.

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About the Authors

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 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 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of London Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908590610
• ISBN 13: 9781908590619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 194
• Editor: Larsen Ruth, Marples Alice, McCormack Matthew