Almondsbury anthropologist Richard Edward Latcham (1869-1943) and Richard Longfield Vowell (1795-1870) of Bath, who was prominent in the campaign for Venezuelan independence, join over 2,200 notable historic figures connected with the Bristol and Bath area featured in the latest update to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (DNB).
Evidence of a previously unknown voyage to North America in 1499, led by a Bristol explorer, is to be published this week in the academic journal Historical Research.
Dr Jon Fox from the Department of Sociology has been awarded a grant of £74,500 from the Economic and Social Research Council for research into the racism faced by Hungarian and Romanian migrant workers in the UK.
Many women with ovarian cancer can go undiagnosed for months because their symptoms are not always being investigated promptly, warn researchers at the University of Bristol in a study published on bmj.com today.
Single mothers are more likely to be employed, to enjoy greater financial security and to have improved mental health after a decade of government reforms. Their children (aged 11-15) are less likely to smoke, play truant or leave school at 16, according to new research from the University's Centre for Market and Public Organisation.
Freshwater losses in Greenland have accelerated since the early 1990s, with the south-east of the island seeing losses rise by 50 per cent in less than 20 years, according to new research from Professor Jonathan Bamber in the School of Geographical Sciences and colleagues.
Parents compensate for a lazy partner by working harder to bring up their offspring, but not enough to completely make up for the lack of parenting, says research by bird biologists at the University of Bath and Bristol.
A major step forward, with important implications for understanding how to reduce the severity of multiple sclerosis, has been made by scientists at the University of Bristol.
The international media report that citizens from across the world are travelling or seeking to travel to Switzerland, where they hope to be helped to die. But this “suicide tourism” presents distinctive ethical, legal and practical challenges.
A company co-founded by Professor Anthony Hollander has raised over £1.6 million to fund trials, including the first human study, of its pioneering ‘cell bandage’ technology, which aims to save thousands of patients from the type of knee surgery that currently leads to premature osteoarthritis.
