University of Bristol student Jamie Sparks and his friend Luke Birch have completed their Atlantic row, claiming the title of youngest pair to row the Atlantic, as well as raising a record breaking amount for charity.
An exhibition produced by the University of Bristol Penguin Archive Project opens at the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) on 10th March 2012. Penguin Parade raises awareness of the extensive Penguin Archive held in the University of Bristol Library, Special Collections.
The way we see life behind the Iron Curtain may never be the same again thanks to a groundbreaking history of East Germany’s forgotten sexual revolution, published this week by a University of Bristol researcher.
Dr Marieke Dubbelboer in the Department of French has recently published a book on Alfred Jarry’s experimental and satirical Almanachs du Père Ubu, works which to date have received little critical attention.
The history of Brunel’s ss Great Britain as both a working ship and a visitor attraction is being investigated by two doctoral students in a new joint initiative between the ss Great Britain Trust and the University of Bristol.
This Spring, the University of Bristol’s Department of History is hosting a series of free public events looking at the past and the ways we understand it – from the birth of modern sexual culture to the moral dilemmas of life in Soviet Leningrad.
As the Government publishes its UK Film Policy Review today, Professor John Adams, who contributed to the Film Review Policy Panel consultations and has written extensively on UK film policy, calls for a much more radical, forward thinking approach to the use of public sector funding for UK film.
Novel use of CT scanning technology has allowed researchers at the University of Bristol to create a four-dimensional picture of how ants build their nests.
Come and celebrate music, poetry, film and literature at the University of Bristol this month when the Faculty of Arts opens its doors for InsideArts, the University’s first festival celebrating the arts and humanities.
A celebration of Penguin poetry and the 1960s will take place at the University of Bristol next month featuring Al Alvarez, one of the most influential critics of recent times, and three of the original Penguin Modern Poets: John Fuller, Edward Lucie-Smith and Tom Raworth.
