History at Bristol
@uobrishistory.bsky.social
Department of History at the University of Bristol. Our research+teaching includes diverse approaches, from medieval to contemporary, across the globe.
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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 🇺🇸📚🗃️
It was while I was an undergraduate with @uobrishistory.bsky.social that I first found my passion for US history 🇺🇸📚🗃️
November 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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 🇺🇸📚🗃️
It was while I was an undergraduate with @uobrishistory.bsky.social that I first found my passion for US history 🇺🇸📚🗃️
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“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
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just snuck a last minute reference (before a piece went to proofs) to this wonderful series
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www.historyworkshop.org.uk/series/risk-...
Risk and Uncertainty
How did ordinary people understand and cope with risk in times of personal crisis and in everyday life? This series brings historical perspectives to our own experiences of navigating an increasingly ...
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November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
“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
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www.historyworkshop.org.uk/series/risk-...
just snuck a last minute reference (before a piece went to proofs) to this wonderful series
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www.historyworkshop.org.uk/series/risk-...
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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
Climate Crisis, conservation and the compounding threats to Caribbean collections | Historians at Bristol
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November 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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
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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
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
November 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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
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…’
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
‘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…’
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'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
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Prof Simon Potter (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) considers the potential implications of the leaked BBC memo for The Conversation
theconversation.com/bbc-has-surv...
BBC has survived allegations of political bias before – but the latest crisis comes at a pivotal moment
Allegations of political bias - generally that the BBC leans to the left - have existed for almost as long as the corporation has.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
'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...
Prof Simon Potter (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) considers the potential implications of the leaked BBC memo for The Conversation
theconversation.com/bbc-has-surv...
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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
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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
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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
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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
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New post on a longstanding fav, a book that is both compelling and difficult
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European Women Go Mad in Throwaway Sentences
I recently returned to a book that has shaped much of my thinking: Ann Laura Stoler’s Along the Archival Grain. It’s a powerful avatar of the turn to ‘archives as process’. …
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November 12, 2025 at 6:46 AM
New post on a longstanding fav, a book that is both compelling and difficult
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williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/e...
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williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/e...
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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
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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
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?
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
November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
What’s the collective noun for a group of environmental historians/ environmental humanists?
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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
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Coming up on day two of Extractive Natures/ Natures of Extraction we have bodies, we have places, and we have power!
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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
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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!
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
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and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner
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Plant Public History – Plants, Enslavement and Public History: Re-imagining green spaces as places of heritage and healing
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November 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
We’re SO excited about this!
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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/
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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/
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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!!!!
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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!!!!
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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!
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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!
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In 5 minutes it’s our very own @dudleymarianna.bsky.social book launch for the beautifully titled Electric Wind! More photos to come! …
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
In 5 minutes it’s our very own @dudleymarianna.bsky.social book launch for the beautifully titled Electric Wind! More photos to come! …
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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
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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
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'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
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www.the-tls.com/religion/rel...
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...
Shamanism across many cultures
Shamans were real: they were the magico-religious specialists of Siberian peoples of the Tungus ethnic group, who used that name in their own language to
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October 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
'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...
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...
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🤩 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
CMS; Bristol; University of Bristol; Medieval Studies; MA degree;
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September 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🤩 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
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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
October 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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
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'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...
Prof Ad Putter (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) reviews Laura Ashe's Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy in The TLS
www.the-tls.com/literature/l...
Love trumps conventional ethics in Chaucer’s work
At the end of Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer submits his poem to “moral Gower” and “philosophical Strode” for corrections. In this thoughtful and eloquent
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October 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
'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...
Prof Ad Putter (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) reviews Laura Ashe's Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy in The TLS
www.the-tls.com/literature/l...
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📣 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
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
October 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
📣 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
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
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🦋 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
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
October 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🦋 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
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