SHP Understanding

SHP Understanding has been part of the SHP CPD offer since 2020. The aim of SHP Understanding events is to connect teachers, historians, social activists and others to inform and reshape our teaching of key topic areas in the curriculum. The aim of all SHP Understanding sessions is to empower teachers to consider the needs of young people studying particular historical topics today and to involve young people in the live historical issues which continue to shape our world.

Recent SHP UNDERSTANDING Events

UNEARTHED: Gardening and Empire

The first webinar in our series on the Power of Gardening and the Radical History of Gardening in the classroom took place on Monday November 10 2025. You can watch the recording on the SHP YouTube Channel here:

Understanding Teaching Medieval Women – 18th January 2025 1-5pm (the event starts at 2pm, the first hour is an optional tour of the exhibition)

Our SHP Understanding event on Teaching Medieval Women took place on Saturday January 18th. We started with a workshop for 6th form students that investigated a range of sources from the Medieval Women exhibition from the British Library. This was followed by three micro-keynote lectures from the Teaching Medieval Women team, Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway) talking about Women and Religion, Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent) talking about Women and Movement and Dr Ellie Woodacre (Winchester) talking about Women and Power. The event concluded with a panel discussion bring together our academic historians with school history teachers and students.