The University’s History of Art Department is collaborating with the Courtauld Institute of Art, the UK's leading research institute for art history, for an exhibition of Victorian drawings - many of which will be shown in public for the first time. The exhibition is on display at the Courtauld Gallery, one of the world's finest small art museums, until 15 May.
Sibling rivalry is driven by the transfer of wealth between generations, according to new research by anthropologists at the University of Bristol and Addis Ababa University.
Actress Harriet Walter comes to the University of Bristol’s Wickham Theatre on Tuesday 10 May to talk about her distinguished career on stage and screen.
Bob Dylan will be 70 years old on 24 May 2011. The UK’s foremost Dylan scholars will come together for a conference at the University of Bristol to celebrate, and reflect on his career as singer, composer, poet and performer.
Professor Derek Offord from the Department of Russian has been awarded £800,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to conduct the first large-scale history of the French language in Russia.
Frank Shaw, Emeritus Professor of Medieval German, died in early March. Dr Anne Simon, Senior Lecturer in the Department of German, offers this tribute.
Figures such as former Poet Laureate Sir Andrew Motion and novelist Alan Hollinghurst are among those scheduled to take part in a public reading of Alfred Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam AHH’, considered one of the great English poems of the 19th century.
A team of runners, sponsored by the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol, will be running the Bristol Half Marathon this Sunday [11 September] to celebrate the 2,500th anniversary year of the very first marathon.
A one man exhibition of works by video artist Terry Flaxton, AHRC Creative Research Fellow at the University of Bristol, runs throughout October at Salisbury Arts Centre.
A one-man parody of hard-boiled detective stories, a powerful drama about the Suffragette Movement and a public lecture on Brigitte Bardot are some of the highlights of the Spring 2011 season at the Wickham Theatre.
