The history of Bristol Zoo, which celebrates its 175th anniversary next year, is the subject of two Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded research projects by PhD students at the University of Bristol.
Excavations of a hill fort located near one of the largest burial mounds in Eastern France have been carried out by an archaeologist from the University of Bristol. Among the many finds is a bronze brooch: a masterpiece of early Celtic art with a duck’s head motif, its eyes inlaid with Mediterranean coral.
2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the global eradication of smallpox. A garden in Gloucestershire and University of Bristol academics are playing a key part in the commemoration, to coincide with the birthday of Edward Jenner, the country doctor who discovered vaccination and administered the first smallpox innoculation at his house in Berkeley, Gloucestershire in 1798.
Professor of Medieval Studies, Pamela King, in partnership with the University of Bristol Theatre Collection, has secured funding from the Worldwide Universities Network for an international archival project on the modern performance of medieval plays.
Tanks, bombs and soldiers may be the immediate occupants of the vast swathes of militarized territories across the world, but do they have other functions and meanings? A new book that takes an unprecedented look at these places holds some unexpected answers.
The subject of a sixteenth-century portrait of a young man, that belongs to the National Portrait Gallery, has been identified as Sir Robert Dudley, the illegitimate son of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite courtier, the Earl of Leicester, by students at the University of Bristol.
The British Academy’s prestigious Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture will take place in Bristol this year. The lecture, on Personifications of old age in medieval poetry, will be given by Professor Ad Putter in the Wills Memorial Building on Thursday 21 October at 4.15pm.
The bones of people who died up to a hundred years ago are being used in the development of new treatments for chronic back pain for the first time. The research brings together archaeology and anthropology expertise at the University of Bristol with the latest computer modelling techniques developed at the University of Leeds.
Where did artists get their colours from, and how have changes in the repertoire of colours over the ages affected the way that artists paint? Science writer Philip Ball will address these questions in a public lecture at the University of Bristol on Tuesday 1 March.
Dr Juliane Fürst and Dr Josie McLellan from the School of Humanities' Department of Historical Studies have been awarded £199,269 from the AHRC for a research project that will explore the countercultures of late state socialism.
