A University of Bristol student and his best friend are hoping to enter the record books by becoming the youngest team to row across the Atlantic as well as raising £100,000 for charity.
What is this thing called literature? Why should we study it? And how? A new book by Professor Andrew Bennett of the University of Bristol and Professor Nicholas Royle of the University of Sussex exploring these questions will be launched on Friday 6 February at Foyles Bookshop in Bristol.
A group of poets, activists and academics have created a pop-up exhibit on race equality, as a creative response to the Interventions/2 exhibition by Yoko Ono at The Georgian House Museum in Bristol which opened last week.
Three University of Bristol students will go head-to-head with their lecturers on a BBC Radio 4 quiz show next week. An episode of the lively 3rd Degree programme will be recorded in the Wills Memorial Building on Wednesday, 27 November. Staff, students and the public are welcome to attend.
Researchers from the Department of Historical Studies made a distinctive contribution to this week’s nationwide Apple Day events, by co-organising Quantock Apple Heritage Day.
The Echoing Gallery, an anthology of poems inspired by works of art in Bristol, featuring some of the finest contemporary poets living in or associated with the city, will be launched at the Bristol Poetry Festival next Wednesday [2 October].
One of the most essential elements of hip-hop – musical borrowing – is the subject of a new book by University of Bristol musicologist, Dr Justin Williams.
An ambitious project to create a visual 'translation' in embroidery of all 24 books of Homer's celebrated poem, the Iliad, is being undertaken by University of Bristol PhD student, Silvie Kilgallon.
Artworks and objects that are not intended to last or only remain briefly in existence are the subject of this year's Association of Art Historians' Summer Symposium highlighting post-graduate research, hosted by the University of Bristol.
The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology – the first attempt for more than a hundred years to replace A Dictionary of Hymnology, the standard historical reference book for pre-twentieth century Christian hymns – will be published this October by the Canterbury Press.
