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📢 THIS THURSDAY! 📢

Join us for our 10th Annual Morse Lecture to hear Professor Josephine Quinn speak about "The Provincialisation of Ancient History, or an Enlightenment Tragedy."

🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰April 23rd 5-6:30PM
📍Peele Lecture Theatre, School of Geographical Sciences

Congratulations to Anna Dempsey, former PhD @bristolunienglish.bsky.social candidate, who has won the inaugural Hilary Mantel Prize for Fiction! 🥳

Read more about Anna's novel which was written as part of her PhD 👉 brnw.ch/21x1ug6

@leseldawson.bsky.social @bristol247.bsky.social

Spring Festival 2026 - Good Grief Join Julia Samuel MBE, David Kessler, Joseph Coelho and more for free online events exploring grief, resilience and hope.

Coming soon: Good Grief Spring Festival 17-19 April 2026!

🌱A weekend of free online conversations about grief, resilience & hope.

Speakers include: Julia Samuel MBE, David Kessler, Joseph Coelho OBE, Dr Lucy Hone, Prof. Mary-Frances O'Connor & Dr Frank Anderson

👉More info at: tinyurl.com/5n6nsmwe

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📣NEW EVENT📣

For our 10th Annual Sir Jeremy Morse Lecture, we welcome Professor Josephine Quinn to speak on "The Provincialisation of Ancient History, or an Enlightenment Tragedy."

🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein...
⏰April 23rd 5-6:30PM
📍Peele Lecture Theatre, School of Geographical Sciences

'The most enduring legacy of Plague, which devastated Britain between 1348 and 1665, was that it set the conditions for how we deal with outbreaks.'

Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) on new research in Local Population Studies by BA History graduate Matthew Kilner

Read 👉 brnw.ch/21x1ub2

Congrats @wtantam.bsky.social!!!!! 🙌🏽

Congratulations to Dr @wtantam.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) who has received a University Enterprise Fellowship for the 26/27 academic year! 🥳

Read more about the new cohort, which includes 3 academics from the Faculty of Arts, Law & Social Sciences 👉 brnw.ch/21x1tr5

✨ COMING UP: Join Dr @katyphipps.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) at the National Portrait Gallery for a public lecture on the history of sex & sex work in Victorian Britain & the British Empire

The event takes place on Thursday 16 April, 1-2pm with tickets available 👉 brnw.ch/21x1pgc

Woohooo!! Thanks Dan for this great chat about Lady Macbeth 😊

@bdfi.bsky.social

🎮 Dr Harry Wilson (Theatre) introduces his AI Tools for Games and XR Storytelling project, which explores the possibilities & problems of collaborating with AI in the creation of narrative games & immersive experiences

Watch the full video 👉 brnw.ch/21x1gQz

@richardcole.bsky.social

Picket at St Barts Hospital, London, in 1988. Image credit: Bishopsgate Institute. Photographer: Maggie Murray.

💥 Women Strike Back! – A new exhibition by Dr @saimanasar.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) is on display at St Paul's Learning Centre until end of June

Celebrating the stories of Black & South Asian women who campaigned for & brought about change in postwar Britain

More 👉 bit.ly/412N1Tj

Committee members Lizzie and Sarah standing next to a purple Centre for Medieval Studies banner, holding conference folders. Sarah is also holding a red plushie dragon called Wilbur, the conference mascot.

The second day of the conference has flown by! We are absolutely delighted with the quality of the papers and the lovely group of delegates we got this year.
@bristolcms.bsky.social
@uobartsmatter.bsky.social

God on their side: how the US, Israel and Iran are all using religion to garner support Politicians from all three Abrahamic religions are using scripture to back their positions.

'While the war has been criticised as being in breach of international law, the reckless use of religion to support this war has not.'

Dr Toby Matthiesen (Religion & Theology) on how leaders have used religion to justify their actions in the Middle East

Read 👇

theconversation.com/god-on-their...

An image of four people sitting on stage talking with one another. Image also has the words: "Poetry, AI, Ethics and Inclusion Saturday 25 APril, 11:00 Watershed Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival"

Join us on 25 April at Lyra Fest! Poets Deanna Rodger and shakara, plus technologist Vincent Baidoo, present their findings from Page Against the Machine: AI and Poetry, in conversation with guest poet Hannah Silva. Chaired by Michael Marcinkowski (King’s College London). www.lyrafest.com#e150159

BBC gets a new director general: how others have fared in the hardest job in UK media Brittin joins the broadcaster after almost two decades as a Google executive in Europe.

'Given the amount of criticism that the BBC has faced in recent years, this may be the hardest job in the UK media.'

Prof Simon Potter (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) on the appointment of Matt Brittin as the BBC's new director general for The Conversation

Read 👇

theconversation.com/bbc-gets-a-n...

📻 Prof @paulinefairclough.bsky.social (Music) joins Nick Mohammed on BBC Radio 3 #SundayFeature to talk about how the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich was received in Britain

Listen to the full programme 👉 brnw.ch/21x14ox

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Join us next Wednesday for the next installment in our reception series, delivered by Professor Emily Greenwood (Harvard University). The lecture is free to attend, and is titled "Thrice Removed: Black Classical Separation"

🎟️ buytickets.at/theinstitute...
⏰Wed March 8th, 5-6:30PM
📍Online, Zoom

‘A fascinating discovery’: research challenges Battle of Hastings narrative Harold may have sailed, not marched, in 1066, reshaping explanations for his defeat in England’s historic battle

'This new discovery highlights the central importance of maritime aspects to the events of 1066.'

PhD @uobrishistory.bsky.social candidate @tyguson.bsky.social provides expert comment on new research into King Harold & Battle of Hastings for The Guardian

Read 👇

www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

'Migrants and refugees are an essential part of British society.'

Dr Florian Scheding (Music) introduces The Good Old Budapest! Cabaret in British Exile which revives WW2 cabaret songs as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

Watch 👉 brnw.ch/21x0HVA

@engagebristol.bsky.social @mmbuob.bsky.social

Lovely new @nature.com paper including one of our own, @lorenabecval.bsky.social! Have a read at this thread by one of the senior authors to learn more about it 👇

The 2026 Daniel C. Dennett Lecture in Culture and Technology at Northeastern University London. YouTube video by Northeastern University London

The video of my Dennett lecture at Northeastern London is now up on YouTube!

Lifelong Learning and the Many Aims of Higher Education

Bristol Uni's reparative justice programme marks milestone "Reparative justice is about more than acknowledging historical wrongs"

'It is about repairing harm through tangible action, shared power and long-term structural change.'

Dr Marie-Annick Gournet (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) speaks to @bristol247.bsky.social about the Reparative Futures programme as it enters a new phase

Read 👇

www.bristol247.com/student/news...

This was so much fun to do, and wonderful to collaborate with other creatives. Thanks @beinghumanfest.bsky.social for making it possible with their generous funding!

📽️ Dr @benwt.bsky.social (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) introduces the Hannah More interactive walking tour, bringing to life one of the most successful Georgian-era writers, part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

Watch the video 👉 brnw.ch/21x0HVA

@engagebristol.bsky.social @hannahmore.bsky.social

A glimpse of hell in a painting of ‘The Last Judgment’ by Frans Floris, 1565

'The underworld was local – and it was plural.'

Emeritus Prof Richard Buxton (@clahbristol.bsky.social) provides expert comment on tourists' fascination with finding the gates to the underworld of Greek mythology for the @financialtimes.com

Read 👉 brnw.ch/21x0DW4

@uobrishistory.bsky.social

Women's self-employment has long been an important but often overlooked part of Britain's working history

Inspired by #IWD, we're spotlighting Dr Amy Edwards' @somsproject.bsky.social which explores the history of women’s self-employment in Britain 1970-2000

Watch the documentary 👉 brnw.ch/21x0DJY

New exhibition to explore histories of Black and South Asian feminist pioneers "Women Strike Back!"

Thanks to everyone who came to the ‘Women Strike Back! exhibition launch. And to the team that made this possible: Abi Freeman, Sarah Howard, Sreenanti Banerjee & Siza Dube. It will be up for a few weeks at St Paul’s Learning Centre and Bristol Central Library. www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

New exhibition to explore histories of Black and South Asian feminist pioneers "Women Strike Back!"

Briefly here to post that the ‘Women Strike Back’ exhibition has just launched in Bristol. It explores the activism of Black and South Asian women. Free and open to the public. Pls do share the news.

www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...