Joe Saunders, University of York joe.saunders@york.ac.uk @joesaunders1.bsky.social I am a research student at the University of York and have for several years undertaken teaching work at the university. In June 2025 York proudly announced that it understood the positive role universities have to transform people’s lives, with Vice-Chancellor Charlie Jeffrey boldly declaring that York was … Continued
Dr Stephanie Brown, University of Hull s.brown6@hull.ac.uk @stephemmabrown.bsky.social How can a map of medieval homicides help teach about law, violence and society? In lots of ways, actually. The Medieval Murder Map is an innovative digital humanities project that visualises homicides drawn from the coroners’ rolls of three English towns: London, York, and Oxford. Entries of … Continued
Saima Miah, University of Wolverhampton graduate The theme of this year’s Black History Month is ‘time for change: action not words’. In this spirit, former SHS committee member Dr George Gosling reached out to some of his former students at the University of Wolverhampton to discuss what it meant to them to learn about Black … Continued
Joe Moran, Liverpool John Moores University J.Moran@ljmu.ac.uk My new article for Cultural and Social History, ‘An Intimate History of Social Mobility in Post-War Britain’, focuses on the lives of my parents. My mum and dad were baby boomers, beneficiaries of the 1944 Education Act and the opening of new universities in the 1960s. But my … Continued
Tanya Evans and Melanie Burkett, Macquarie University @TanyaEvans14 tanya.evans@mq.edu.au Semester 1 has just begun. I’m as excited as ever about meeting my new 3rd year Cultural Heritage and Public History Professional and Community Engagement (PACE) students. But I’m also a little wary as tertiary teachers and learners here in Australia and elsewhere around the world … Continued
Dr Henry Irving, Leeds Beckett University @drhenryirving There is a large cardboard box in the corner of my study. It’s been there for the past nine weeks and now feels as permanent a fixture as my lamp or bookcase. During this time, the box has become gradually fuller, providing a home to a seemingly endless … Continued
George Gosling, University of Wolverhampton @gcgosling What works at any given time is, of course, historically and contextually contingent. So it proved for teaching online during lockdown last time, and so it will prove again. When university teaching in the UK migrated online in March 2020, most of those teaching at universities were completely unprepared … Continued
Clare Burgess and Olivia Wyatt, University of York @clareburgess6 @oliviawyatt1999 At the end of February, amid staff strikes and growing rumours about an as-yet unfamiliar disease, we stood at the front of an auditorium and opened a conference that had been nearly a year in the making. We were nervous, and felt a little like … Continued
Dr Alex Mold, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @alexnmold As a historian of public health, I have spent many years teaching students about past outbreaks of infectious disease, and how societies have responded to these at different times and in different places. This subject now seems more relevant the ever. The COVID-19 pandemic has … Continued
Professor David M. Pomfret, University of Hong Kong pomfretd@hku.hk In the 2001 Hong Kong movie ‘My Life as McDull,’ an animated pig named Mrs Mak dupes her son into thinking he is on a much-anticipated trip to the Maldives. Mrs Mak cannot actually afford such a trip so instead she buys tickets for the leading … Continued
