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An essential teaching companion offering practical strategies for enhancing learning for all teachers of history in higher education. The study of the eighteenth century has been a growth area in university research and teaching in recent decades. Although widely taught in history departments, the eighteenth century also presents challenges, including new students’ unfamiliarity with the period, the theoretical and interdisciplinary nature of the critical writings, and extensive online source material requiring digital skills for its evaluation. Focusing on pedagogical innovation and current developments in the discipline, this collection of essays reflects on how we teach the history of the long eighteenth century, exploring current subfields such as histories of material culture, the senses, gender, crime and empire. It presents practical case studies showcasing how novel teaching methods can be employed in the classroom that promote active learning and invite students to think critically about the nature of their discipline. Methods covered include decolonising the curriculum, digital history, transferable skills, engaging with objects, working in non-classroom settings and multisensory approaches. Grounded in real academic practice, this is a valuable guide for all history educators, whether specialising in the eighteenth century or beyond.

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‘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

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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.

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