A new interactive digital resource offering fascinating insights into the history of South Asian people living in Britain has been launched in conjunction with South Asian Heritage Month 2025, which runs until 17 August.
Fresh analysis and interpretation of a letter fragment from the early 17th century by an academic from the University of Bristol has revealed possible intriguing new details about the marriage of William Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway.
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Dr Edson Burton barely learnt any Black history at school – now he’s made it his mission to teach others about this often-neglected story.
Good Grief Weston, the festival of love and loss returns to the town in October [10 to 13] for its second edition. The event, which involves University of Bristol researchers, aims to open up conversations around death and bereavement, with honesty, compassion, joy and sometimes with humour.
Two researchers from Bristol’s Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Law have been awarded a share of a £104 million UKRI’s flagship fellowships grant to help lead research into global issues including deforestation in the Amazon rainforest.
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A 55-year-old who returned to education after a serious bike crash made him rethink his life has graduated from the University of Bristol.
A University of Bristol ancient historian has just been elected a Fellow of the British Academy in recognition of her contribution to the humanities and social sciences.
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Bristol PhD student Rachel Hare is set to compete in the finals of the European 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) contest, becoming the first University of Bristol entrant to reach this stage of the competition.
By analysing digital copies of an incredibly rare and obscure 17th century Italian religious text, a University of Bristol academic has revealed that a long-lost document previously thought to have been written by William Shakespeare’s father belongs in fact to his relatively unknown sister Joan.
The exact location of a long-lost stone cross erected by the 14th century that acted as a boundary marker to define the then city limits of Bristol, and which was also the site of a gallows which stood for hundreds of years, has been discovered by an historian from the University of Bristol.
