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East meets West at M-Shed
16 May 2012
An exhibition which explores how Eastern Europeans living in and around Bristol remember life under state socialism – and how their experiences have shaped their lives in the UK – takes place at M-Shed next Monday [21 May].
Students meet Mexican Ambassador
10 May 2012
As part of a recent event to celebrate the University's links with Mexico, students attended a question-and-answer session with the Mexican Ambassador to the UK, Eduardo Medina-Mora Icaza.
Researchers explore new ways to experience heritage attractions
9 May 2012
Four projects which aim to bring heritage attractions to life using immersive digital technologies have recently received funding. The collaborations draw on the expertise of researchers in the University of Bristol’s Faculty of Arts.
New book puts Olympics in the picture
9 May 2012
The first-ever book to offer an in-depth analysis of images and objects relating to the greatest sports show on earth is published this month by an art historian at the University of Bristol.
Plays for Today: David Edgar at the Wickham Theatre
7 May 2012
The internationally celebrated dramatist, David Edgar comes to the University of Bristol this Thursday [10 May] to deliver the 2012 Wickham Lecture entitled ‘Plays for Today: the playwright’s place in British Theatre – then and now’.
Bristol composer is pick of the Proms
4 May 2012
Wildfire, a piece by John Pickard, Professor of Composition and Applied Musicology in the Department of Music, will be performed at this year’s BBC Proms by the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain.
Italian merchants funded England's discovery of North America
1 May 2012
Evidence that a Florentine merchant house financed the earliest English voyages to North America, has been published on-line in the academic journal Historical Research. The article by Dr Francesco Guidi-Bruscoli, a member of a project based at the University of Bristol, indicates that the Venetian merchant John Cabot (alias Zuan Caboto) received funding in April 1496 from the Bardi banking house in London.