The 24 year old fixing the ‘toxic’ student rental market
A former Bristol student bent on fixing the 'toxic' student rental market now employs 10 people and is closing in on £500,000 of funding.
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Bristol leads archaeologists on 5,000-year-old egg hunt
An international team of specialists, led by the University of Bristol, is closer to cracking a 5,000-year-old mystery surrounding the ancient trade and production of decorated ostrich eggs.
Playwright Kevin Elyot remembered through writing residency award
The memory and influence of the playwright Kevin Elyot is to be celebrated by the University of Bristol Theatre Collection, through an award in his name.
Marvell-ous discovery solves 400-year-old mystery surrounding poet Andrew Marvell’s double life as a Dutch spy
Andrew Marvell’s poetry is best known for discouraging the crime of coyness in courtship, but new research led by the University of Bristol has uncovered compelling evidence that the famous poet, celebrated in the eighteenth century as a politician and satirist, had his own illicit liaisons as a spy for the Dutch.
Meet the winners of 2021 Doctoral Prizes
The most interesting theses produced by University of Bristol PhD students have been revealed.
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'Remarkable' Syrian blinded in war graduates with master's degree
A Syrian man who lost his eyesight while fleeing his home country has graduated from the University of Bristol.
Chemical evidence of dairying by hunter-gatherers in highland Lesotho in the first millennium AD
After analysing organic residues from ancient pots, a team of scientists led by the University of Bristol has uncovered new evidence of dairying by hunter-gatherers in the landlocked South African country of Lesotho in the mid-late first millennium AD.
Bristol celebrates all things Francophone
A taste of southern France will come to Queen Square next week when University of Bristol students and staff stage a pétanque competition in the gravel paths of the square.
University appoints partners to oversee Reparative Futures Programme
In November 2023, the University of Bristol announced funding for an ambitious programme which aims, through a series of targeted initiatives, to redress some of the systemic injustices arising from the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved African people.
University musicians revive lost Cleopatra cantata
The Vision of Cleopatra, a piece of choral music unheard in over a hundred years, will be performed by the University of Bristol’s student choral society and symphony orchestra this Saturday [March 12]. The full score of the cantata, which was lost in the London Blitz, has been reconstructed by Professor John Pickard in Bristol’s Department of Music.