When Jennie Godfrey told colleagues she was quitting their FTSE-100 company to pursue her childhood dream of becoming an author, some rolled their eyes, others worried openly about her mental health. But just two years later she was signing a deal with Penguin to publish her first novel and translate it into four languages.
Research undertaken by a University of Bristol historian has informed a major new exhibition by The Museum of British Colonialism, which is taking place in Nairobi, exploring the history of Britain’s ‘villagisation’ programme in colonial Kenya.
The University of Bristol and Bristol Cathedral are collaborating on a new research project which will explore the nature of sound inside the building and the way that it impacts on visitors.
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For most, getting a degree represents years of learning. For Lawrence Hoo, it represents a lifetime.
Treasures collected by the University of Bristol, including Brunel documents, historic maps and rare film, will be made public thanks to a major investment in digitisation equipment.
Shelter CEO Polly Neate CBE today told students to keep striving to make the world a better place as she accepted an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Bristol.
The University of Bristol is launching a listening exercise today, seeking views on whether seven buildings whose names are linked in different ways to the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans should be renamed.
An undergraduate History student from the University of Bristol has uncovered previously unknown details about one of the worst-named, but possibly most successful, quarantine hospitals in English history: Bristol’s ‘Forlorn Hope Pesthouse’.
John Vincent, Emeritus Professor of History, passed away in March at the age of 83. Professor Ronald Hutton offers a remembrance.
While most British children are likely to have heard of Fantastic Mr. Fox, very few adults, let alone children, may have heard of Reynard, the Dutch vulpine trickster who inspired Roald Dahl’s much-loved character.
