As we commemorate the centenary of the First World War, University of Bristol historian Professor Robert Bickers explores the contradictions, patriotic fervour and battlefield experiences of the largest contingent of Shanghai British to fight the Kaiser’s forces in Europe, and the story of the city they left behind.
Professor Mervyn Morris, newly-appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica, will give the Bristol Poetry Institute annual reading for 2014.
In her new book, Dr Madhu Krishnan, Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol, explores the contours of representation in contemporary African literature in English.
A new documentary – a collaboration between University of Bristol historian Professor Robert Bickers and director, Jeremy Routledge of Bristol media company Calling the Shots – gets its London premiere today at the British Academy.
Three research projects from the University of Bristol have been shortlisted in the final of the national Engage Competition run by the National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement (NCCPE).
A new exhibition of depictions of the English coastline from the Royal West of England Academy's (RWA’s) collection, selected by students from the University of Bristol, opens next Thursday [29 May}.
As part of his AHRC-funded project ‘Thucydides: reception, reinterpretation and influence’, University of Bristol ancient historian Professor Neville Morley explores the reception of Thucydides in modern western historiography in his latest book Thucydides and the Idea of History.
The winners of the University of Bristol’s 2013/14 Engagement Awards, judged by the Engaged University Steering Group, have been announced.
A new exhibition, curated by students from the University of Bristol, which brings together rarely-exhibited works from two important local collections of eighteenth-century theatrical portraiture opens tomorrow [Saturday 7 June] at the Holburne Museum, Bath.
The University has been chosen to receive a copy of a very rare book, printed by the Vatican, concerning Hildegard of Bingen.
