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
Ruins, ruin lust, and risk
Date: 21 January 2021
Venue: Online, hosted on Zoom
This is a UWE Bristol Regional History Centre talk in partnership with M Shed Seminar Series. Join speaker, Dr Corinna Wagner, Associate Professor of Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, in this illustrated talk to look at various sites of ruin and trace a course through Romantic ruinenlust, Victorian neo-gothic buildings, and postmodern 'traumascapes'.
Murder on the Middle Passage: The trial of Captain Kimber
Date: 28 January 2021
Venue: Online, hosted on Zoom
This is a UWE Bristol Regional History Centre talk in partnership with M Shed Seminar Series. Join speaker, Professor Nicholas Rogers, Distinguished Professor in History at York University, Toronto, in this talk which traces the career path of the Captain, the circumstances of the enslaved woman's death and the drama of the trial.
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