The world-renowned Raymond Mander & Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection (M&M), recently donated to the University of Bristol, has been safely relocated to its new home in the University’s Theatre Collection. This exciting acquisition, which ensures the long term future of the M&M Collection in its entirety, has created one of the world’s largest theatre collections dedicated to British theatre history.
A new website and blog focussed on Russian art and culture – the first of its kind in the UK – has been launched by one of the University of Bristol’s History of Art graduate research students.
An exceptionally well-preserved example of an ancient Swahili stonetown will be excavated by archaeologists from the University of Bristol this summer thanks to £500,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The dig at Songo Mnara, a World Heritage site on the southern coast of Tanzania, will enable the researchers to explore aspects of ancient urban planning in coastal East Africa.
The Cabot Project, run by Dr Evan Jones of the Department of History, has been awarded £90,000 funding from Gretchen Bauta, a private Canadian benefactor with a particular interest in Canada's early history.
Author Matt Rendell will talk about his new book Salsa for People who Probably Shouldn't at an event in the Faculty of Arts today (Wednesday 26 Oct, 5.30 pm in LR8, 21 Woodland Road).
A team of runners, sponsored by the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol, successfully completed the Bristol Half Marathon on Sunday 11 September.
Emeritus Professor Michael Costeloe died peacefully at home, with his family by his side, on 24 August. Colleagues and former students pay tribute to a supportive colleague, an inspiring teacher, a fine scholar, and a warm and generous friend.
An archaeologist at the University of Bristol believes he may have discovered Britain's oldest example of rock art.
A lavishly-illustrated book on the pre-Columbian goldwork of Panama has been published by Dr Nicholas Saunders, lecturer in the University of Bristol’s Department of Archaeology and Anthropology.
One of the largest online collections of historical photographs of China is launched at the University of Bristol today. The Visualising China project, a unique virtual archive of Chinese life, gives users the opportunity to explore and interact with more than 8,000 digitised photographs of China taken between 1850 and 1950.
