The University of Bristol Theatre Collection’s latest exhibition, Actors and Artifice – the first Theatre Collection exhibition to be held at the Royal West of England Academy – opens this Wednesday [5 February].
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.
Hereditary inequality began over 7,000 years ago in the early Neolithic era, with new evidence showing that farmers buried with tools had access to better land than those buried without.
University of Bristol archaeologist, Dr George Nash has co-edited a major, bilingual study of the rock art of the Iberian Peninsula, published this month by Archaeolingua.
The representation of sport in visual culture is the subject of a new collection of essays, edited by art historian Dr Mike O'Mahony of the University of Bristol and Professor Mike Huggins of the University of Cumbria.
University of Bristol academic George Ferzoco is to be quizzed on national television tonight [17 February] when he sits in the famous Mastermind hot seat. George, who is a Research Fellow and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, will come under the spotlight at 8.30pm on BBC2 when host John Humphrys tests his general knowledge.
Daniel Karlin, Winterstoke Professor of English Literature at the University of Bristol has recently had his contribution to a multi-volume edition of the poetry of Robert Browning (1812-89) published in the prestigious Longman Annotated English Poets series.
The Medieval art, architecture and history of Bristol Cathedral is the focus of a new book by researchers at the University of Bristol.
Trefael, an ancient monument in a windswept field near the village of Nevern in South-west Wales, has been giving up its secrets to a team of archaeologists from the Welsh Rock Art Organisation (WRAO).
Two University of Bristol archaeologists are part of EUROTAST, a new European-funded network which will bring together an unprecedented range of young researchers to examine one of the most traumatic chapters in world history: the transatlantic slave trade.
