Events from the Regional History Centre (RHC)
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 event
Witchcraft, magic, and society in nineteenth-century Somerset
Date: 17 February 2022
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Free online event via Zoom
Speaker: Owen Davies, Professor of History at the University of Hertfordshire. He is the author of numerous books and articles on witchcraft, magic, ghosts, folklore and popular medicine, including A people bewitched: Witchcraft and magic in nineteenth century Somerset and, most recently, A supernatural struggle: Magic, divination and faith during the First World War.
This is a UWE Bristol Regional History Centre talk in partnership with M Shed seminar series.
Please book your place below. Details of how to join the session will be in your registration email. Please check your spam folder if the email does not arrive. Bookings close at 14:00 on Thursday 17 February 2022.
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
- Stories via Sleeve Art: Bristol Art from a visual perspective - 17 June 2021
- Reading the 'Book of Skin': The Life and Death of John Horwood - 15 April 2021
- 'Good old Knowle': The wrestling craze in Bristol and the South West, c. 1900 - 18 March 2021
- Personal devotion in late Medieval Bristol: The case of Isabel Ruddock - 18 February 2021
- 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
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