A Bristol academic will lead a discussion on a curious Victorian phenomenon at the fitting setting of Arnos Vale Cemetery
03.03.2026 17:38
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A Bristol academic will lead a discussion on a curious Victorian phenomenon at the fitting setting of Arnos Vale Cemetery
@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social @bristol247.bsky.social
On 18 March, Dr Pam Lock will be giving a talk at Arnos Vale Cemetery on the influence of ideas about spontaneous human combustion on the development of alcohol medicine, based on her article in Addiction: onlinelibrary-wiley-com.bris.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1111/.... All proceeds will go the cemetery.
More good news! I've been awarded funding by the YMCA/AHRC to lead a heritage engagement and knowledge exchange project @bristolunienglish.bsky.social. 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' will see me set up a community archive of the manuscripts I've uncovered at the property 1/
Book Talk And Discussion with Professor Lyn Innes, author of Fugitive Families: Making Black Lives Matter in Victorian Britain.
19 February, 16.00-17.30, Arts Complex, Lecture Theatre 2
Lyn Innes (C.L.Innes) is Emeritus Professor of Postcolonial Literatures, University of Kent, Canterbury.
Want to impress someone special this Valentines Day? 'Medieval Love Letters' by Myra Stokes and our own Ad Putter has some helpful medieval love letter templates, including 'How to dissuade women from taking the veil' and 'Persuading someone to marry for money'! #medievalsky #skystorians
Sarah Scaife, PhD researcher at University of Exeter & University of Bristol, has had her article from the Journal of Medical Humanities included in the new National Centre for Creative Health's Creative Health Research Round-Up 2025.
ncch.org.uk/resources/cr... @ncch.bsky.social
The 2026 English Department Research Seminar Series kicked off today with great talks from Dr Florian Stadler and Lauren Smith, and continues next week Dr Billie Gavurin on 'Palaeoanthropology and the Fantastical in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Literature'.
📻 Dr Laurence Publicover (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) joins BBC Radio 4 #InOurTime to discuss Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1 with @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social & Misha Glenny
Listen to the full programme 👉 brnw.ch/21wZOlR
@bristolcms.bsky.social
New from Prof Ralph Pite, Edward Thomas's Prose: Truth, Mystery, and the Natural World, out now with Oxford UP:
'How do we reawaken and revive our cultural institutions and also give energy to those working with minuscule resources?'
Dr Edson Burton (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) writes on Bristol's bid to become UK City of Culture 2029 for @bristol247.bsky.social
www.bristol247.com/opinion/your...
📺 Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) joins BBC #PointsWest to discuss Hannah More, the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist and philanthropist
Visit the new project website to find out more about her work and letters 👉 brnw.ch/21wZegO
Image of Gutenberg and a Gutenberg-style press, next to the following text: Join us in our working historical print shop at the University of Bristol! Founded in 2021, and now with four historic presses, the Bristol Common Press is dedicated to exploring global print cultures through teaching and research.
A person holding a letterpress card reading "I made an impression in Bristol!"
An Albion press, and the hand of someone who is operating it.
We want to finish the week with some exciting news: following last year's success, the Bristol Common Press will be running a workshop at our 2026 conference too! 🎉 Can't wait!
New collection from our very own Dr Sean O'Brien @seanobrien.bsky.social, edited with Dr Madeline Lane-McKinley, The Return of the 90s: A Cultural History of the Present, from @plutopress.bsky.social. Sure to be of interest to students and colleagues alike. Available for pre-order now!
A reminder that our 8 week public course on #Crimefiction is running at #BristolEnglish from 4 February to 1 April 2026 and might still have a few places left!
Click here for more information and to book: www.bristol.ac.uk/english/stud...
We're delighted to announce the first of our amazing keynote speakers: medieval historian, author, co-host of 'Gone Medieval' and 'We're Not So Different' podcasts, and co-creator and host of several HistoryHit TV series... Dr Eleanor Janega 🎉🎉🎉(@goingmedieval.bsky.social)! #medievalsky #skystorian
'It's a possibility that seems difficult to avoid'
Prof @matthewsteggle.bsky.social (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) research on Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, features in a BBC article on the Oscar-tipped new film, Hamnet
Read more 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti...
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...
✍️🗻 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
Next Thursday 4 Dec, Professor Ad Putter will be delivering a free lunchtime lecture at the Central Library to accompany a new exhibition of Bristol’s medieval manuscripts! Book here bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=252...
‘How to read medieval English handwriting’ @bristolcms.bsky.social
🚨 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! 🚨
Not sure what to do on a particularly rainy Friday in Bristol? ☔️ We’ve got you covered! Old English Reading Group runs at 3pm in Hattie’s office, no experience or prep required! Email harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk for more info! ☺️
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
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
This study was described by the judging panel as ‘a wonderful book [and] a very significant contribution to knowledge.’
Dr Emma Parker’s monograph Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been awarded the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize for 2025! 🏆🏆🏆 @bacls.bsky.social
Tonight! Andy Brown and William Wootten will introduce and read from their new poetry collections
6pm, 11 November, B.H05 LT, 7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB.
Admission Free, All Welcome
Tomorrow (Weds)! English research seminar with Akshi Singh, ‘Henry James and Haunted Tulips: The Spoils of Poynton Revisited’. 5 Nov, Room G.H01, Arts Complex, 3-5 Woodland Road, 4-5pm
Letter from Hannah More to Cadell & Davies, 1811. Huntington Library, mssHM 30636 https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/66328/
Welcome! We're a digital project @bristolunienglish.bsky.social bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
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We hope that everyone is having a wonderful reading week! Here's a sneak peek at some of the CMS Research Seminars we can look forward to in the second half of the semester!
#medievalsky #skystorians
We love (haha) this review from the CMS' Prof Ad Putter!
