Innovations in Teaching History: Eighteenth-Century Studies in Higher Education - Tapa dura

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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.