This Blackboard site has been constructed as a resource to help you develop your understanding of the nature of history. It is part of a collaborative project between Edge Hill and Roehampton universities supported by the Higher Education Academy. We hope that you will find it useful in helping you develop your thinking, reasoning and questioning about history and the skills historical research and understanding at undergraduate level requires. Within this Blackboard site you will find material that models how to assess historical significance, explains how to construct an historical argument and materials which will encourage you to expand your thinking in terms of the kinds of sources that are available to historians in their work. You will also obtain support on how to interogate and interpret primary material. In addition you will find items which encourage the development of understanding with regard to some of the many complex social and political concepts which are an integral part of historical study. The resources are varied but many focus on providing relatively short but meaningful and accessible visual demonstrations designed to encourage engagement and discussion of historical methods: the process by which historians go about producing their work. The construction of visual material can promote memory and conceptual learning.

The video in this folder overviews the project and the achievements we have been aiming for.