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’.
Leading sports writers, academics and translators will discuss the practise of sports writing and its relationship to sporting cultures at the University of Bristol on 21 February.
Bristolians are being called upon to share the stories behind their most treasured possessions as part of a unique hands-on history project. Whether it’s a favourite toy, football ticket or even a magazine, people are being urged to bring their special objects to M Shed on Saturday [30 June] for the Know Your Bristol event.
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.
An aspect of England’s past that has long seemed immune to serious historical investigation is explored for the first time in a new book published today. In Inside the Illicit Economy, Dr Evan Jones of the University of Bristol investigates the smugglers’ world of Tudor England.
The French Ambassador to Great Britain, His Excellency, Monsieur Bernard Emié, was a distinguished visitor to the University this week, meeting staff and students from across the faculties.
A new book exploring the relationship between the BBC and the British empire is published today by Dr Simon Potter in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol.
Three new collaborations between University of Bristol academics and creative companies have been awarded £50,000 each as part of REACT Objects Sandbox, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)-funded initiative to explore the interactions and experiences we have with our physical and virtual worlds.
The University of Bristol is calling on members of the public across the South West to help with a new research project which aims to preserve and present the most imaginative, quirky, diverse and entertaining visual responses – photos, drawings, paintings etc – to London 2012.
The Department of History’s ‘Historical Photographs of China’ project is the focus of a documentary ‘Old Photographs Fever: The Search for China's Pictured Past’ to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 11am on Wednesday 11 July.
