#ICYMI: Dr Zeina Maasri (History of Art) introduced us to her Decolonizing the Page project, a first-of-its-kind digital archive & online exhibition of Arabic book arts (1950s-80s) Read more about & explore this incredible resource of 250+ books 👉 brnw.ch/21wYhgS

Astonished that Publishers Weekly has put out this great review of DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE. (What is happening I never get mainstream attention, my world is the weird world (good)) But what I hope is that more people will find out about the Alternative Press, and you know?, now they might!

We are running our short course on Crime Fiction again in 2026. 8 weeks of evening classes @bristoluni.bsky.social. Join 8 university tutors sharing some of their favourite cold cases in detective fiction in an accessible but intellectually stimulating way: www.bristol.ac.uk/.../detectiv...

Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for a special preview of a short documentary film exploring women's experience of self-employment. The screening held @w_shed was followed by a Q&A with Dr Amy Edwards and filmmakers @blackbarkfilms. Information on how to view the film to follow 🎬

'The question of Algeria, for the RN, is not only about migration, but about the status of the colonial past.' Dr Alexandra Reza (@frenchatbristol.bsky.social) writes a new piece on Franco-Algerian relations for the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

📢 Upcoming event! CultureQuest, a location-based, AI-driven game, turns Bristol Museum’s Egyptian Gallery into an interactive quest guided by the gods. 📆 9 February, 10:00 - 17:00 📍 Bristol Museum & Art Gallery Find out more: tinyurl.com/c9h3hp4v

How monogamous are humans compared to other animals? Check out this BBC interview with @kitopie.bsky.social to learn more!

My tasty take (pun intended) on the Bayeux Tapestry—a subject on which I had vowed never to publish. Available Open Access with @ihr.bsky.social. See what you make of it, and bon appetit! academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

A press release from the University of Bristol about an exciting new article by @benpohl.bsky.social and published by Historical Research: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/de...

✍️ Dr Zeina Maasri (History of Art) introduces us to Decolonizing the Page, a digital archive & online exhibition of Arabic book arts (1950s-80s), a time when creative expression flourished Read more about this incredible resource featuring 250+ books 👉 brnw.ch/21wYhgS

Dr @charlottefaucher.bsky.social (@frenchatbristol.bsky.social) has published a new report which examines three decades of UK cultural diplomacy and offers insights for shaping future strategies Read more about Charlotte's key recommendations on UK soft power 👇 www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/news/202...

'Empire Without End is an accessible work that confronts the legacies of colonialism – it deserves to reach a wide, general audience.' Prof Sumita Mukherjee (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) selects her favourite new history books of 2025 for @historytoday.com www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

We're launching a 3-week Hong Kong History Summer School in June-July 2026 for all of you interested in HK history! And you will have the opportunity to explore our Hong Kong collections too. Just how exciting is that? @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social #hongkonghistory

Also open for application at @hongkonghistory.bsky.social at the moment is our Visiting Scholar Scheme for 2026/27, for colleagues/PGR students working on project(s) relating to the history of Hong Kong! #hkhist @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social

We have now announced TWO full PhD studentships at Bristol's Hong Kong History Centre @uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social! Please spread the word to anyone you know who are working towards/have a Master's degree, and are interested in pursuing further research in HK history.

…The campaign aims to enable the Malaysian public to explore their history through transregional and inclusive perspectives.’ Read more about Allan Pang’s public history research on the History blog!https://historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/944

‘Since January 2025, I have collaborated with Imagined Malaysia, a Malaysia-based NGO, and started a public history campaign titled ‘Malaysia Unbound: Transregional Histories through Documents’…

#ICYMI: Dr @stevedehailes.bsky.social (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) introduced us to his Medieval Mountain AHRC project which raises awareness of our historical relationship to mountains and our continued role in their preservation Read more about Steve's research 👉 brnw.ch/21wXUsn

Recent research by @kitopie.bsky.social also discussed in The Archaeology Channel 👇🏽👏🏽 www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/... @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

Interview (from 17.00) for the Briefing with Monocle_Radio on State formation: grain, tax and writing - from research (with @quentinatkinson.bsky.social) @nathumbehav.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41.... monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Nice to have heard Kit on the radio yesterday discussing his recent publication on @nathumbehav.nature.com! Congrats on all the engagement 🙌 🎉 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr Christophe Fricker (@germanatbristol.bsky.social) who has received the Zuger Anerkennungspreis, one of the most prestigious translation awards in the German-speaking world 🥳 Read more about the award presented at a ceremony in Switzerland 👇 www.bristol.ac.uk/sml/news/202...

'It may feel worlds apart, but the challenges and choices facing states today have been playing out since the dawn of the earliest states, thousands of years ago.' Dr @kitopie.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) writes in a new piece for The Conversation theconversation.com/the-real-rea...

The invention of agriculture (around 9,000 years ago) spurred the rise of early states? NO. Our research www.nature.com/articles/s41... (with @drqueue.bsky.social) in @nathumbehav.nature.com supports an alternative theory that States almost invariably formed in societies that grew cereal grains.

We loved hearing all about our own Steve De Hailes' Medieval Mountain project! 🏔️ #medievalsky #skystorians

This was a compelling biography of man at the helm of the UN in the turbulent 60s. Here I tried (in 750 words!) to give more context on the #afroasian world, its engagement with the UN, and Burma's decolonisation. Read it just for U Thant and Kruschev bobbing along together in the Black Sea.

'He exuded a sense of Buddhist calm and tolerance, yet was at home among the international elite.' Prof @sulinlewis.bsky.social (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) reviews a 'riveting new biography' of U Thant, former Secretary-General of the UN, in a new piece for The TLS www.the-tls.com/history/twen...

✍️🗻 Dr @stevedehailes.bsky.social (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) tells us about his Medieval Mountain AHRC project which seeks to raise awareness of our historical relationship to mountains & our continued role in their preservation Read more about the project 👉 brnw.ch/21wXUsn

Curious about what a Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School might look like? Check out this wonderful video made by one of this year's summer school students! #medievalsky #skystorians

🚨 Hwæt, medievalists: following its successful inauguration last year, the Bristol Medieval Studies Summer School will be running again in 2026! 🚨 Please share the good news or—even better—sign up yourself: www.bristol.ac.uk/centre-for-s... We're so proud of this course, and we'd love to see you! 🚨

Please share: 2 fully funded 4 year PhD studentships for autumn 2026 entry at the Hong Kong History Centre @hongkonghistory.bsky.social here at @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

'Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this.' Emeritus Prof Chris Bertram (@crookedfootball.bsky.social) comments on Labour's new immigration policies in a new piece for the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

🗣️ TONIGHT: Join Jonathan Stamp, former consultant on the award-winning HBO series Rome, for a public lecture on Bringing Ancient Rome to Life The FREE event organised by @igrct.bsky.social takes place in the Wills Memorial Building, 5-6.30pm, tickets 👉 brnw.ch/21wXs5g @clahbristol.bsky.social

Editing is well underway with @blackbarkfilms for the #SOMS project documentary, a showcase of 5 self-employed women's stories from the 1990s and 2000's. Please get in touch if you would be interested in finding out more about the film preview and Q&A at the #watershed in December. #uniofbristol

'This crisis comes at a pivotal moment in the broadcaster’s history, as it approaches the once-a-decade renewal of its royal charter.' Prof Simon Potter (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) considers the potential implications of the leaked BBC memo for The Conversation theconversation.com/bbc-has-surv...

🗣️ TONIGHT: Join Prof Beth Johnson (@leedsunimedia.bsky.social) for the final #AutumnArtLecture as she examines how deep inequalities in the TV industry shape both production & representation on screen 📍 Wills Memorial Building ⏰ 6.30-8pm 🎟️ brnw.ch/21wXs2k (free, all welcome!)

For this week's CMS seminar, we are lucky enough to be joined by Bristol's own Dr Kathleen Thompson for a paper on 'Leperhouses and Lordship: Some Ideas from Medieval Bristol'. We can't wait to find out more! #medievalsky #skystorians

Very proud of my former PhD student, Dan Booker, whose important study on women and the law of the exchequer has just been published by @ihrlibrary.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Over the 🌙 that Life Writing & The End of Empire is joint winner of the 2025 @bacls.bsky.social Monograph Prize 🎉 Congrats to co-awardee @drdominicdean.bsky.social & brilliant shortlistees @olihaslam.bsky.social @gabriele-lazzari.bsky.social. I can’t wait to read your books! bacls.org/news/187/

🌍 How do colonial legacies shape today’s climate crisis and tech culture? Neocolonialism, Extraction & the Cracked Mirror of Capitalism – talks + film at Watershed, 15 Nov. Free tickets 👉https://www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/events/neocolonialism-extraction/ @cabot-institute.bsky.social

🔍 Bristol glass, taxidermy pangolin & colonial silences—what stories do they tell? Join Materiality & Museum Extraction at Watershed, 19 Nov. Talks + creative insights from historians, artists & scientists. 👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/brigstow/eve... @cabot-institute.bsky.social #DecolonisingMuseums

'There’s a global awareness that something significant is happening with Asian art.' Dr Zehra Jumabhoy (History of Art) speaks to GQ India about her new co-curated exhibition, Krishen Khanna at 100: The Last Progressive Read about the exhibition which opens today 👇 www.gqindia.com/content/kris...

I think lots of you all will be as excited as I am to see Jess Moody’s “Plants, Enslavement and Public History” project website and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🗃️🌿🪴

We are very excited to be joined on Thursday by Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge) for our next CMS Research Seminar: 'The Place of History in the History of Place: Constructing the Literary Landscapes of Medieval Ireland'. We can't wait! #medievalsky #skystorians

'Shamanism is enjoying a double boom in the modern world.' Prof Ronald Hutton (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) reviews two new books on the subject - Shamanism: The Timeless Religion by @manvir.bsky.social & Shamans by Max Carocci - in a new piece for The TLS Read 👇 www.the-tls.com/religion/rel...

📢 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 We are thrilled to announce that our 2025/26 Donors’ Celebration will be a lecture delivered by Jonathan Stamp, former consultant for the HBO series ROME. 🎟️ www.tickettailor.com/events/thein... ⏰18/11, 5-6:30 PM. 📍Old Council Chamber, Wills Memorial Building, BS8 1RJ

My talk on the unknown historical silent teachers of the Anatomy Dept @bristoluni.bsky.social and a project reconstructing their faces at @arnosvalecemetery.bsky.social has been moved to 3rd December. More time to grab your in-person or online tickets! arnosvale.org.uk/bringing-the...

✍️ Prof Esther Eidinow (@clahbristol.bsky.social) & Dr Chris Bevan (Computer Science) introduce us to their AI in Antiquity project which uses new technologies to bring the ancient world to life Read how their use of AI aims to enhance the teaching of ancient culture 👉 bit.ly/4qwgyjt

On 8&15 Nov we're running "A Herstorical Walking Tour of Georgian Bristol" as part of @beinghumanfest.bsky.social with @engagebristol.bsky.social. Led by an actor it tells the stories of Bristol's women writers. Find out more & sign up for free: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/a-her... Plz repost

'Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.' Join Prof Justin Williams at @wshed.bsky.social on Thursday 6-9pm for a new documentary on Hip-Hop in Tanzania The event is free, open to all & includes a Q&A, food & music! 🎟️ bit.ly/42oG7Ja