Events from the Regional History Centre (RHC)
Forthcoming events
History, family history and families: From global to personal
In this lecture, Dr Wanda Wyporska will explore the intersections of history, family history and identities; by taking her own Anglo-Polish-Caribbean heritage and training as a historian as starting points, she argues for the importance of an interdisciplinary and inclusive approach.
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Regional History Seminar Series
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.
The Regional History talks have concluded its run for 2022-23. A new series of talks will commence in the new 2023-24 academic year.
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
- Thomas Colston and Bristol's pre-1698 trafficking of enslaved Africans - 15 June 2023
- Murder by witchcraft - 18 May 2023
- 'The antidote and answer to Cliveden'- Buscot Park and the aristocrats who fought facism - 20 April 2023
- Decoding the riots of Skimmington in the Forest of Dean and beyond - 16 March 2023
- Bristol goes bananas - the city's role in the birth of a globalised fruit trade - 16 February 2023
- Deconolising the catalogue - access to records of Bristol's transatlantic slave economy - 26 January 2023
- Muck and modernity: Nineteenth century sewerage engineering and the growth of modern Bristol - 15 December 2022
- The burning of Bristol's New Gaol in 1831 - 17 November 2022
- 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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