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In this post, Dr Miguel Hernández argues that it is imperative for historians to introduce our students to responsible use of Generative AI, particularly given the growing ubiquity of the technology in search tools. Miguel explains the steps taken by his Department in response to an institution-wide call for specific policies on AI use in assessments, and explains in useful deta...

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In this post Dr Jesús Sanjurjo reflects on lessons learned from the use of AI in The Prison Blueprint Project, a research project led by the University of Strathclyde with the National Archive of Cuba and the universities of Glasgow and Havana, and supported by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Jesús explains how he plans to draw four lessons from his research into hi...

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In this post Dr Dave Hitchcock reflects on the limitations of AI in history classrooms, and the importance of teaching the thought-work that necessarily contributes to history making. The article concludes with '8 Considerations for Large Language Models and the Teaching of History'. This post is part of a series commissioned by the Royal Historical Society on 'AI and History Te...

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In this post, Brian Mac Cuarta introduces his new book, 'Francis Slingsby (1611–1642) and the Jesuits', the latest volume in the Society's Camden series of scholarly primary editions. This new Camden volume highlights Jesuit involvement in conversion to Catholicism in the Caroline era. It draws on the experience of one young man, Francis Slinsgby, in Rome and Ireland. Themes inc...

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How did early modern people remember and define rights of way in and beyond their communities? Dr Zoë Jackson reflects on this question which is guiding her postdoctoral research on how and why people in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England and Scotland remembered, contested, and communicated their knowledge of and use of these paths. Dr Jackson describes how the award of...

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