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天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 work outside the university aims to inspire the next generation of historians, provide support for teachers, and engage with the wider community. This is at a local, national and international level.
天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 long-standing commitment to outreach activities for school pupils in Hampshire and beyond includes the development of online materials to support their education.
天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 historians’ expertise has shaped the presentation of the past in museums, galleries, and historical sites in 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 and around the world. We share our historical knowledge and perspectives on TV, radio, and in the press. ?
天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 researchers also engage with policy makers by sharing expertise with parliamentarians and government departments.? Additionally, we offer consultancy work with institutions in the private sector seeking to respond to contemporary challenges. Read on for our work involving education, heritage, media and engaging with policy makers.
Education?
天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 researchers work in partnership with professional associations, and secondary school and college teachers to develop teaching resources. These reflect the latest in scholarly approaches to the study of the past. 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 partnership with the Royal Geographical Society, for example, will create an extensive range of videos, podcasts, teaching plans and PowerPoints for the teaching of imperial and environmental histories and geographies at Key Stages 3-5.
Engaging directly with school pupils, we host regular in-person study days on topics related to GCSE, A-level, and IB study. These are fun, informal, and informative interactive events. Students get experience of university-style lectures and seminars, meet current students, and learn about life at university more generally. These events have included talks on everything from the Ancient World through to the Atomic Age.
We encourage teachers to contact us directly to suggest themes and topics of interest, as we can create bespoke sessions. We can also help A-level students manage large research projects such as EPQs, from picking titles, to managing time, conducting primary source research, and writing up their findings.
We work with teachers in schools and colleges by offering workshops and activities to help with continuing professional development. We arrange visits for teachers to work with members of our department to develop teaching resources. We can provide access to the university’s significant holdings of primary and secondary sources to assist with this. School and college staff are also welcome to visit our campus to sit in our core lectures, or to make special arrangements to attend specific classes taught by members of the Department.
Get touch with us by emailing HistOut@soton.ac.uk.
Heritage
天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 staff have an impact on how the past is understood at local, national, and international level. Here are some select examples:
Local
We deliver projects that connect with communities in 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载. Examples include:?
- An exhibition at the John Hansard Gallery reflected on early BBC TV programming for Indian migrants.
- We developed exhibition materials, in collaboration with the curators at the Gilbert White’s House museum in Selborne, relating to a Victorian traveller in Africa.
- Researchers working on the hidden histories of male cross-dressing in late 18th-century Britain, including 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载, are planning a local exhibition on nightlife.
National
The expertise of one of our researchers in the history of science, medicine and African collections lies behind the exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London on the Kola nut, a small bitter-tasting fruit found growing on?Kola?trees across tropical Western Africa. The?kola?nut was one of two core ingredients in the first Coca-Cola recipe during the 1880s, but had already been used for centuries among West Africans for a myriad of purposes.
International
The development of the National Socialist Rally grounds in Nuremberg, Germany, is being shaped by a member of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 staff with extensive research expertise in the Third Reich. The Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish and Non-Jewish Relations is a vibrant hub of activity for Holocaust education more generally.
Media
天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 staff frequently share their knowledge and understanding of the past in British and overseas media. Several colleagues have appeared on TV programmes such as 'Who do you think you are?', as well as local, national, and international radio. 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 historians are interviewed as experts in the press. They also contribute articles to popular outlets such as BBC History Magazine, Prospect, The Washington Post and The Conversation.
We have shared our research in innovative ways. One such example is through theatrical collaborations. These include:?
- Sweet Tooth, a cross-disciplinary music theatre piece that sought to make sense of the legacies of slavery. It drew on the research by a member of staff in the archives of Atlantic slavery.
- The Commotion Time - a play about the bloody rebellion which convulsed the West of England during the summer of 1549 - was partially inspired by a book on that subject published by another of our researchers.
- A theatre in Prague is staging a new play exploring youth, fascism and homosexual scandal in interwar Czechoslovakia that is based on the work of one of our emeritus professors, who acted as consultant for the production.
Engaging with policy makers
We are committed to making a difference in the world. This is evident in our engagement with national policy-makers, the British parliament, and international organizations, whether through invited talks, as expert advisers, or by hosting research events that bring together policy-makers and elected officials with other professionals and practitioners.
We welcome further opportunities to work with governments, NGOs, and private enterprise to provide historical understanding to pressing concerns in the present.
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