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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 1d

✨ COMING UP: Join Prof Justin Williams for a screening & discussion of a new documentary on Hip-Hop in Tanzania

Part of the Sounding East Africa project, the doc charts the development of hip-hop as part of East African musical history

📆 Thu 30 Oct, 6-9pm
📍 @wshed.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/42oG7Ja

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 7d

✈️ Our PGR internship series returns, as PhD @uobrishistory.bsky.social candidate Jenny Hutton tells us about working with Dr @smawdsley.bsky.social to examine the history of aircraft cabin air contamination

Read more about this important research with global reach 👉 bit.ly/3IHyV47

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Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social · 8d

The histories featured on South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories were informed by archival research which took place across the UK. Discover these histories by visiting your local archive: southasianbritain.org/useful-archi...

#SouthAsianBritain @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

Useful archives — South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories

southasianbritain.org

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Pauline Fairclough @paulinefairclough.bsky.social · 9d

Out now with @oxunipress.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social with thanks to @leverhulme.ac.uk .... Joseph Stalin banned it, but was it too sexy or just too noisy?

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Welfare, Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism Project @wcifproject.bsky.social · 9d

Please join us for this guest lecture with the brilliant Dr Eugenia Anderson (KNUST/Oxford) titled: 'We do not fear intimidation,
we will express our opposing views.' Thursday 23rd October, 4-5.30pm. All welcome! @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @brisblackhums.bsky.social

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 12d

📻 Prof @paulinefairclough.bsky.social (Music) reflects on the life and work of Tikhon Khrennikov, one of the most powerful - and controversial - figures of 20th century Soviet music, in a new BBC Radio 3 programme

Listen to the full episode 👇

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Sunday Feature - The Man Who Played The Kremlin's Tune - BBC Sounds

Lucy Ash uncovers the murky story of Tikhon Khrennikov, Stalin’s musical enforcer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 14d

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 14d

💥 The @beinghumanfest.bsky.social returns 6-15 Nov at venues across Bristol!

We have EIGHT events on everything from beer & music with @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social & @petebrownbeer.bsky.social to LEGO printing with @johnjoemctague.bsky.social

For more 👇

www.beinghumanfestival.org/being-human-...

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Prof. Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 14d

🤩 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;

medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

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Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social · 15d

Fascinating stuff from the CMS' own Dr Evan Jones!

Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 16d

'They [maps] are a great research tool and are also equally accessible to people without skills or training.' 🗺️

Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) comments on the addition of historic street names to Bristol's Know Your Place interactive city map for BBC News

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bristol's forgotten street names revealed in map

Names of roads either lost down the centuries or renamed are available on a new map.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 16d

'They [maps] are a great research tool and are also equally accessible to people without skills or training.' 🗺️

Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) comments on the addition of historic street names to Bristol's Know Your Place interactive city map for BBC News

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bristol's forgotten street names revealed in map

Names of roads either lost down the centuries or renamed are available on a new map.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social · 19d

A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!

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Rebecca Kosick @rkokayokay.bsky.social · 26d

Next week in Mexico City, join us at la Ibero 17-20 septiembre for the III Simposio Internacional de Poesía Experimental, PO-EX, with an absolutely knock-out wave of poet-thinkers. Program+ at www.instagram.com/po_ex_santia...

Póster by Rhys Trimble for PO-EX III featuring a series of graphic text-based prints.

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Dr Amy Edwards @somsproject.bsky.social · 26d

Filming started this week for the SOMS documentary.

Participants kindly invited us and @blackbarkfilms into their homes to talk about their experiences and inspirational stories of being self-employed women in the 1980s, 90s and 00's.

➡️More updates to follow

#womensworkstories
#genderandwork

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 26d

🥳 Congratulations to Dr @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social (Philosophy) & Dr @helenfewlass.bsky.social (@bristolantharch.bsky.social) who have received highly prestigious ERC Starting Grants!

Read more about Project LEAD led by Rebecca & Project ARRIVAL led by Helen 👇

www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/se...

September: erc-grants | News and features | University of Bristol

www.bristol.ac.uk

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Bristol IGRCT @igrct.bsky.social · 29d

🏳️‍🌈 EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🏳️‍🌈

For this year's Symonds lecture, Nicky Taylor and Alexander Sugar present “No man can see himself as others see"
Bringing the personal papers of John Addington Symonds to new audiences. #queerhistory

🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-on-th...
⏰4PM, 4/10
📍Peel Lecture Theatre

The poster for the event discussed. It features various photographs and drawings from John Addington Symonds' life, such as a photograph of him on a sledge and a drawing of his dog.

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Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social · 29d

There are over 750 entries related to the histories of South Asian in Britain on the digital resource, South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories.

Begin your search at southasianbritain.org

#SouthAsianBritain #History @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social

Home | South Asian Britain

southasianbritain.org

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Good Grief Festival @goodgrieffest.bsky.social · Sep 4

We're super-excited to share this short film, a snapshot of our work to build a more compassionate grief-informed society! Thank you to everyone involved in making it, especially to the brilliant @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social for featuring. Thanks also to our incredible collaborators & GGF community

Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Grief affects us all, and yet people often struggle to talk about death & dying. 🦋

@goodgrieffest.bsky.social is a social venture spinout at @bristoluni.bsky.social that brings people together to talk about death & grief, providing information, support & a sense of community

More 👉 brnw.ch/21wVqxR

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · Sep 4

💥 COMING UP: Changing the Odds is a unique one day event that puts the Arts at the centre of the gambling harms debate

Expect talks, Q&As, live performances & a film screening on the subject

🗓️ Wed 10 Sep, 9-2pm
📌 Arts Complex, 7 Woodland Rd
🎟️ brnw.ch/21wVsu5 (free!)

@evelynwelch.bsky.social

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · Sep 3

@leseldawson.bsky.social @lucyselman.bsky.social @griefcentrebris.bsky.social @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @beardedjourno.bsky.social @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social @capcbristol.bsky.social @noreenmasud.bsky.social @carrieetter.bsky.social @joanpassey.bsky.social @joannanadin.bsky.social

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · Sep 3

Grief affects us all, and yet people often struggle to talk about death & dying. 🦋

@goodgrieffest.bsky.social is a social venture spinout at @bristoluni.bsky.social that brings people together to talk about death & grief, providing information, support & a sense of community

More 👉 brnw.ch/21wVqxR

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UoBris Centre for Environmental Humanities @uobrisceh.bsky.social · Sep 2

Happening this Friday evening at @bookhaus.bsky.social , featuring one of our talented CEH members, the poet Suzannah V Evans. This will be a very special event 💙

Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · Aug 20

💥 COMING UP: Join Suzannah V Evans (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) for the launch of her debut poetry collection, Under the Blue

Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy

📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm
📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv

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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · Sep 2

Six weeks from publication! Forgive a little book promo. I’ve got some talks lined up this autumn if you want to hear more about Electric Wind. Feel free to message me for more details.

Electric Wind talks and events in autumn 2025 (arranged by date)

Electric Wind talks in autumn 2025 arranged by place

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Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social · Sep 2

We've recorded nearly 100 hours of oral histories from British South Asians across the UK—spanning generations, identities & regions. Archived with the @britishlibrary.bsky.social & free to access: southasianbritain.org/oral-histories/project-collection/ @UoBArtsMatter @BL_Learning @QMULsed

Project Collection | South Asian Britain

southasianbritain.org

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Pauline Fairclough @paulinefairclough.bsky.social · Sep 1

This is positively the last post about this. Tagging uob now 🤭 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social rmameee.wordpress.com/music-on-the...

Music on the Move in Communist Europe

/ Music on the Move in Communist Europe 28—29 May, 2025 Department of Music, University of Bristol Convenors: Pauline Fairclough, Mariia Romanets Programme Wednesday 28 May Venue: Lecture Room 1, 4…

rmameee.wordpress.com

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