A new National Portrait Gallery display of unseen paintings of 16th and 17th-century mystery figures opens at the National Trust’s Montacute House on 17 March. The exhibition draws on new research undertaken by History of Art MA students at the University of Bristol.
Dr Patricia Lucas in the School for Policy Studies is leading a new three-year research project to develop a strategy to ensure that key messages and findings from current research into child health are being transmitted effectively to policy makers across Europe.
In new work by Professor Mike Benton at the University of Bristol, and six other authors from Romania, Germany, and the United States, Nopcsa’s hypothesis is tested for the first time. They found that the Haţeg Island dinosaurs were indeed dwarfs.
Groundbreaking research using detailed computer models has been used to gain new understanding of a genetic form of a condition called sick sinus syndrome that disrupts the heart’s normal rhythm.
New research, led by academics at the University of Bristol's Centre for Hearing and Balance Studies, has studied illness perceptions in medically unexplained hearing difficulties.
This book provides an intriguing account of how conscientious objectors, who opposed war on religious, moral and political grounds, were perceived during the First World War.
Claims that a tomb at Vergina, Greece, the ancient burial place of the Macedonian royal family in the fourth century BC, contains the body of King Philip III Arrhidaios, half-brother of Alexander the Great, and not Philip II, Alexander’s father, are called into question by researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Manchester and Oxford.
In celebration of its 200-year history, this book commemorates the lives of the Society’s 13 founder members and sets geology in its national and European context at the turn of the 19th century
The Companion outlines the evolution of the legend from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot and analyses how some of the major motifs of the legend have been passed down in both medieval and modern texts.
A report just published in the online journal, PLoS ONE, indicates that the mothers of children with an autistic spectrum disorder were themselves more likely to have been born to older mothers. These findings could open up new avenues in autism research.
