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...

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...

Very nice and nuanced write-up of my latest research by @historyextra.bsky.social! Many thanks to @djmusgrove.bsky.social & Co.! 😊 www.historyextra.com/period/norma...

Can’t say that making it into the printed edition of the Daily Mail was top of my list of academic career goals, but hey-ho..!

Today is the day! I’m very excited and honoured to be delivering the @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social Annual History Lecture this evening. I’m really looking forward to talking publicly about my new book for the first time 📚🗃️ @lbishophisarch.bsky.social

'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...

Nice work by my @uobrishistory.bsky.social / @bristolcms.bsky.social colleague and fellow Bristol Record Society councillor, Evan Jones! bristolrecordsociety.org/stories-from...

#LegalHistory #BristolHistory This, from Evan Jones @bristolcms.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social is interesting on humour, Bristol, maps, gallows(es) ... bristolrecordsociety.org/stories-from...

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'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

Continue introducing our network of ECS, we have Yuan JIN sharing with us on her academic journey and current project on the Kowloon Waterworks system in Hong Kong. Full text see: tinyurl.com/4pwk72vf

‘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’…

getting in the spirit of the season by reviewing this new book (an anthropology of Christmas magic)

Took Electric Wind to meet some electric wind ⚡️ I’m out in Norway teaching on an energy humanities PhD course and we went to a wind farm today ☺️ @manchesterup.bsky.social

And .. the Hong Kong History Centre here is also accepting applications for our Visiting Scholar Scheme Come visit us here @uobrishistory.bsky.social www.hkhistory.net/2025/11/24/v...

Come join us, or please share the opportunities to: our great 4-year PhD studentships are now advertised. This one is for pre-1950 history www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ727/p...

Come join us, or please share the opportunities to: this 4-year Hong Kong History Centre PhD studentship is for projects focusing on any historical period www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ731/p...

'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...

Last week, we were privileged to host Professor Sarah Hamilton (Exeter) for a CMS seminar on ‘The Liturgy of the Road: Masses for Travellers at St Gall, 900-1100’. We certainly learned a lot! Thank you so much Sarah — we hope that you’ll come back and visit us soon! ☺️ #medievalsky #skystorians

Roll up! Roll up! Medieval Studies Summer School applications are open for 2026

🚨 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! 🚨

Omg. I was in Oslo yesterday and I MISSED IT.

Applications are open! Environmental history is a key part of this Environmental Humanities summer school + thinking about how our relationships with the natural world changes over time. Along the way we might well visit Iranian oil fields, Antarctica and the deep sea!

We were fascinated to hear George Rayson (University of Cork) speak at a CMS/Italian seminar on ‘“Così o così”: Choosing the Right Words in Dante’s Commedia’. Thank you for such an interesting talk George — we hope to welcome you back to Bristol soon! 😊 #medievalsky #skystorians

Wonderful couple of hours wandering around Bristol, taking some photos of my new book in old haunts. It was while I was an undergraduate with @uobrishistory.bsky.social that I first found my passion for US history 🇺🇸📚🗃️

“How did ordinary people understand and cope with risk in times of personal crisis and in everyday life?” just snuck a last minute reference (before a piece went to proofs) to this wonderful series 🗃️ www.historyworkshop.org.uk/series/risk-...

Today, we are sharing a recent blog post written by Zakiya McKenzie, Senior Research Associate on the ‘Plants Enslavement and Public History Project’ historiansatbristol.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/archives/941

in a moment straight out of EVERY film and TV depiction of tarot reading, as the final card to represent my future in a three card reading, a student in class today turned over DEATH been nice knowing you etc

‘In August 2025 I visited the Natural History Museum of Jamaica in downtown Kingston. The public exhibition on Jamaican bats and the library at the museum are worth the visit, but another treasure lies in the herbarium. There I met the Curator for the National Herbarium, botanist Keron Campbel…’

'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...

I find the phrase “makes history” nonsensical. Have you seen the stuff historians study? Just dropping an old piece of farm equipment down a well or accidentally freezing to death in a glacier gives you a good shot at the history books

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

New post on a longstanding fav, a book that is both compelling and difficult 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/e...

Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto. Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃 Wed 19th Nov 17:45–19:00 Online & in-person

What’s the collective noun for a group of environmental historians/ environmental humanists?

Coming up on day two of Extractive Natures/ Natures of Extraction we have bodies, we have places, and we have power!

Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia

We’re SO excited about this!

Here’s @dudleymarianna.bsky.social introducing her new book to the world, in conversation with CEH co-director Paul Merchant. Everyone go read: ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/

Was great to celebrate Electric Wind with friends and colleagues @uobrisceh.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social . I was most excited about the book-cake. Cake-book. A book made of cake!!!!

And tomorrow kicks off the ‘Extractive Natures/ Natures of Extraction’ workshop led by our fabulous visiting scholar @melinabuns.bsky.social. Phew! Stay tuned for more!

In 5 minutes it’s our very own @dudleymarianna.bsky.social book launch for the beautifully titled Electric Wind! More photos to come! …

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...

🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians

The stop-motion animation 'Reynard the Fox' -- directed by Maddy Pull, and executive-produced by Dr Kristian Moen and our own Prof Ad Putter -- has made it to the semi-finals of the Animalis Fabula Film Festival, and will be shown in San Antonio in late Nov. 🎉 Huge congrats to all! #medievalsky

'When sympathy with Chaucer's Christian beliefs can no longer be taken for granted, alternative philosophies are needed to make sense of Chaucer's ethics.' Prof Ad Putter (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) reviews Laura Ashe's Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy in The TLS www.the-tls.com/literature/l...

📣 UPCOMING EVENT! 📣 The Hellenic society is launching a new South West and Wales regional network! 🎟️ Sign up: forms.office.com/e/tbYuWrWwNP ⏰October 30th, 2-6PM 📍Humanities Research Space, University of Bristol 1st floor, 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB

🦋 Bridging Histories is a social enterprise which supports everyday people & communities to achieve they changes they want to see. Led by Dr Joanna Burch-Brown (Philosophy), Bridging Histories hyper-local focus has had global impact, from Bristol to Bosnia & beyond Watch the video 👉 bit.ly/4oCFh4c

Don’t mind if we do! 🐈‍⬛