The role that football stadia play in urban regeneration, cultural identities and heritage will be examined by a group of specialists in football and urban development at the University of Bristol.
What influence is the internet having on language, and what is happening to language as it comes to be used on the internet? This and other questions will be addressed by prominent linguist David Crystal in the annual Bristol Institute for Research in the Humanities and Arts (BIRTHA) lecture at the University of Bristol this evening.
Cézanne, synaesthesia and sensory design are just some of the subjects covered by the Autumn Art Lectures at the University of Bristol which this year take colour as their theme. The series starts on Tuesday 19 October and runs for six consecutive Tuesdays at 6pm in the Reception Room of the Wills Memorial Building.
Growth in the import of luxury goods and increasingly close ties with European markets were features of the Irish economy five hundred years ago, according to new evidence unearthed by a historian at the University of Bristol.
Researchers at the University of Bristol and the University of Exeter have been awarded a £406,828 grant from the AHRC for research into live art and performance archives.
The epic story of foreign impact on China from the early 19th century to the start of the First World War is told in a new book by Professor Robert Bickers of the University of Bristol, published today.
Wealth does affect parents’ investment in their children’s education, according to new research from the University of Bristol and the London School of Economics, published in Current Anthropology.
Does a degree in philosophy prepare students for employment? How does philosophy contribute to culture and can it help us to be happy? These and other questions will be addressed by a panel of philosophers at a forum in Bristol on Monday 21 March, co-organised by the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England (UWE).
It is one of the great classics of all time, revered the world over for its literary and musical genius. Now, as Les Misérables begins its season at the Bristol Hippodrome, the extraordinary life of the man behind this much loved story is to be unravelled.
A Tudor wall painting of Henry VIII, uncovered in a Somerset home when its owners were redecorating, is an enormously significant find according to University of Bristol art historian Michael Liversidge.
