Events
Current and past seminars and events from the Regional History Centre.
In partnership with M Shed, the Regional History Centre runs a monthly evening research seminar at M Shed, Bristol. Seminars are normally on the third Thursday of each month but please refer to the programme for variations.
Forthcoming events
Personal Devotion in Late Medieval Bristol: The Case of Isabel Ruddock
Date: 18 February 2021
Time: 18:00-19:00
Venue: Online, hosted on Zoom
This is a UWE Bristol Regional History Centre talk in partnership with M Shed seminar series. Join speaker, Dr Esther Lewis, as she reconstructs the piety, kinship links and status of Isabel Ruddock who lived and died in Bristol in the late fifteenth century.
'Good old Knowle!' The Wrestling Craze in Bristol and the South West, c.1900
Date: 18 March 2021
Time: 18:00-19:00
Venue: Online, hosted on Zoom
This is a UWE Bristol Regional History Centre talk in partnership with M Shed Seminar Series. Join Dr Nick Havergal as he explores the significance and impact of wrestling on the social and cultural life of the South West in the early twentieth century.
Reading the 'Book of Skin': The Life and Death of John Horwood
Date: 15 April 2021
Time: 18:00-19:00
Venue: Online, hosted on Zoom
This is a UWE Bristol Regional History Centre talk in partnership with M Shed Seminar Series. Join Dr Rose Wallis as she delves into the contents of the 'book of skin'.
Past seminars
- Seminar series programme 2019-2020 (PDF)
- Seminar series programme 2018-2019 (PDF)
- Seminar series programme 2017-2018 (PDF)
- Seminar series programme 2016-2017 (PDF)
- Seminar series programme 2015-2016 (PDF)
- Seminar Series programme 2014-2015 (PDF)
- Seminar series programme 2013-2014 (PDF)
- Seminar series programme 2012-2013 (PDF)
- Seminar series programme 2011-2012 (PDF)
- Past seminar series programmes 2004-2011 (PDF)
Past events
- Witnessing the war: The Bristol Blitz - 19 November 2020
- War, Revolution and the Romantic Era in South West England - 28 February 2015
- Romancing the Gibbet - Walford: The public execution of John Walford in 1789 - 15 November 2014
- Imperial City: Bristol in the World (PDF) - 20-21 September 2013
- Georgian pleasures - 12-13 September 2013
- Writing the West - May 2012
- Protest, memory and public history - February 2012