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.
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! 🚨
November 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Roll up! Roll up! Medieval Studies Summer School applications are open for 2026
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🚨 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! 🚨
November 27, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨 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! 🚨
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Omg. I was in Oslo yesterday and I MISSED IT.
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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!
Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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!
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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
November 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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
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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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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-...
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
plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
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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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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...