English at Bristol
@bristolunienglish.bsky.social
Department of English, UoB 📚
Top 10 UK university and 54th in the world (QS Rankings 2025)
Top 10 UK university and 54th in the world (QS Rankings 2025)
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Not sure what to do on a particularly rainy Friday in Bristol? ☔️ We’ve got you covered! Old English Reading Group runs at 3pm in Hattie’s office, no experience or prep required! Email harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk for more info! ☺️
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Not sure what to do on a particularly rainy Friday in Bristol? ☔️ We’ve got you covered! Old English Reading Group runs at 3pm in Hattie’s office, no experience or prep required! Email harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk for more info! ☺️
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
*Old Norse isn't running today but will be back next week!*
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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
Dr Emma Parker’s monograph Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been awarded the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize for 2025! 🏆🏆🏆 @bacls.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Dr Emma Parker’s monograph Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been awarded the British Association of Contemporary Literary Studies Monograph Prize for 2025! 🏆🏆🏆 @bacls.bsky.social
Tonight! Andy Brown and William Wootten will introduce and read from their new poetry collections
6pm, 11 November, B.H05 LT, 7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB.
Admission Free, All Welcome
6pm, 11 November, B.H05 LT, 7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB.
Admission Free, All Welcome
November 11, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Tonight! Andy Brown and William Wootten will introduce and read from their new poetry collections
6pm, 11 November, B.H05 LT, 7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB.
Admission Free, All Welcome
6pm, 11 November, B.H05 LT, 7 Woodland Road, BS8 1TB.
Admission Free, All Welcome
Tomorrow (Weds)! English research seminar with Akshi Singh, ‘Henry James and Haunted Tulips: The Spoils of Poynton Revisited’. 5 Nov, Room G.H01, Arts Complex, 3-5 Woodland Road, 4-5pm
November 4, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Tomorrow (Weds)! English research seminar with Akshi Singh, ‘Henry James and Haunted Tulips: The Spoils of Poynton Revisited’. 5 Nov, Room G.H01, Arts Complex, 3-5 Woodland Road, 4-5pm
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Welcome! We're a digital project @bristolunienglish.bsky.social bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
Please follow and repost for updates!
Please follow and repost for updates!
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Welcome! We're a digital project @bristolunienglish.bsky.social bringing together and promoting the correspondence of the celebrated playwright, poet, abolitionist, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833).
Please follow and repost for updates!
Please follow and repost for updates!
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We hope that everyone is having a wonderful reading week! Here's a sneak peek at some of the CMS Research Seminars we can look forward to in the second half of the semester!
#medievalsky #skystorians
#medievalsky #skystorians
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
We hope that everyone is having a wonderful reading week! Here's a sneak peek at some of the CMS Research Seminars we can look forward to in the second half of the semester!
#medievalsky #skystorians
#medievalsky #skystorians
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We love (haha) this review from the CMS' Prof Ad Putter!
'When sympathy with Chaucer's Christian beliefs can no longer be taken for granted, alternative philosophies are needed to make sense of Chaucer's ethics.'
Prof Ad Putter (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) reviews Laura Ashe's Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy in The TLS
www.the-tls.com/literature/l...
Prof Ad Putter (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) reviews Laura Ashe's Chaucer's Ethical Philosophy in The TLS
www.the-tls.com/literature/l...
Love trumps conventional ethics in Chaucer’s work
At the end of Troilus and Criseyde, Chaucer submits his poem to “moral Gower” and “philosophical Strode” for corrections. In this thoughtful and eloquent
www.the-tls.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:31 AM
We love (haha) this review from the CMS' Prof Ad Putter!
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Dr @noreenmasud.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Writing from the Department of English, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk - one of only 30 recipients from across the UK who will receive £100,000.
October 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Dr @noreenmasud.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Writing from the Department of English, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk - one of only 30 recipients from across the UK who will receive £100,000.
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We're very excited to be able to share this seminar online! Be sure to email Hattie to register! #medievalsky #skystorians
This Thursday we have a very special CMS Seminar, which will be a crossover with the GW4 collaborative project 'Medieval Studies: Mobilising Digitial Humanities'. Very excitingly, it will also be online!
Contact harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk to register for online attendance!
Contact harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk to register for online attendance!
October 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We're very excited to be able to share this seminar online! Be sure to email Hattie to register! #medievalsky #skystorians
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This Thursday we have a very special CMS Seminar, which will be a crossover with the GW4 collaborative project 'Medieval Studies: Mobilising Digitial Humanities'. Very excitingly, it will also be online!
Contact harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk to register for online attendance!
Contact harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk to register for online attendance!
October 14, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This Thursday we have a very special CMS Seminar, which will be a crossover with the GW4 collaborative project 'Medieval Studies: Mobilising Digitial Humanities'. Very excitingly, it will also be online!
Contact harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk to register for online attendance!
Contact harriet.soper@bristol.ac.uk to register for online attendance!
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Exciting news! 📣 The CMS' own Dr Sig Sønnesyn (@sigsonnesyn.bsky.social) is giving a lecture tomorrow (Tuesday) on 'Meaning, Intelligibility, and Fusing Horizons: Medieval Thought as a Case Study' at 3:30pm in G.HO1, Arts Complex. All welcome. We can't wait! 😀 #medievalsky #skystorians
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Exciting news! 📣 The CMS' own Dr Sig Sønnesyn (@sigsonnesyn.bsky.social) is giving a lecture tomorrow (Tuesday) on 'Meaning, Intelligibility, and Fusing Horizons: Medieval Thought as a Case Study' at 3:30pm in G.HO1, Arts Complex. All welcome. We can't wait! 😀 #medievalsky #skystorians
Michael Kalisch on Andrew O’Hagan’s On Friendship - Book of the Day & lead review in the @newstatesman.bsky.social 📖 www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
October 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Michael Kalisch on Andrew O’Hagan’s On Friendship - Book of the Day & lead review in the @newstatesman.bsky.social 📖 www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...
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Joyous to give my 1st keynote @ the postgrad forum of @gapsnet.bsky.social, sharing research on #SouthAfrican & #British women writers
Despite the terrors of British HE, this event proved how doctoral research (inc at @bristolunienglish.bsky.social) can illuminate new paths for postcolonial studies
Despite the terrors of British HE, this event proved how doctoral research (inc at @bristolunienglish.bsky.social) can illuminate new paths for postcolonial studies
October 9, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Joyous to give my 1st keynote @ the postgrad forum of @gapsnet.bsky.social, sharing research on #SouthAfrican & #British women writers
Despite the terrors of British HE, this event proved how doctoral research (inc at @bristolunienglish.bsky.social) can illuminate new paths for postcolonial studies
Despite the terrors of British HE, this event proved how doctoral research (inc at @bristolunienglish.bsky.social) can illuminate new paths for postcolonial studies
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Hwæt is this wonderful scene of creative chaos? Could it be the very successful first week of Old English AND Old Norse Reading Group?! #medievalsky #skystorians
October 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Hwæt is this wonderful scene of creative chaos? Could it be the very successful first week of Old English AND Old Norse Reading Group?! #medievalsky #skystorians
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What an amazing CMS event! We were so excited to celebrate not only Kathleen and Melek’s wonderful new book, but a bumper crop of new books from CMS members Matt Lampitt, Leah Tether, Rachael Harkes, Marianne Ailes, Adrian Ailes, Ad Putter, and Ben Pohl! 🎉🥳 Congratulations once again to all!
October 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
What an amazing CMS event! We were so excited to celebrate not only Kathleen and Melek’s wonderful new book, but a bumper crop of new books from CMS members Matt Lampitt, Leah Tether, Rachael Harkes, Marianne Ailes, Adrian Ailes, Ad Putter, and Ben Pohl! 🎉🥳 Congratulations once again to all!
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We're so excited for the first Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminar of the year!
Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after!
All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians
Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after!
All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We're so excited for the first Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminar of the year!
Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after!
All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians
Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after!
All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians
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A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!
September 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!
PhD student Sarah Scaife has recently published a new open-access 🔓 article in the Journal of Medical Humanities: ‘Medicines of Uncertainty and Objects of Care: Creative Engagement with an Ancient ‘Folding Almanac”. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
PhD student Sarah Scaife has recently published a new open-access 🔓 article in the Journal of Medical Humanities: ‘Medicines of Uncertainty and Objects of Care: Creative Engagement with an Ancient ‘Folding Almanac”. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...
September 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Emma Parker’s Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives (Bloomsbury, 2024) has been shortlisted for the 2025 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize! www.litencyc.com/book-prizes/...
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Grief affects us all, and yet people often struggle to talk about death & dying. 🦋
@goodgrieffest.bsky.social is a social venture spinout at @bristoluni.bsky.social that brings people together to talk about death & grief, providing information, support & a sense of community
More 👉 brnw.ch/21wVqxR
@goodgrieffest.bsky.social is a social venture spinout at @bristoluni.bsky.social that brings people together to talk about death & grief, providing information, support & a sense of community
More 👉 brnw.ch/21wVqxR
September 3, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Grief affects us all, and yet people often struggle to talk about death & dying. 🦋
@goodgrieffest.bsky.social is a social venture spinout at @bristoluni.bsky.social that brings people together to talk about death & grief, providing information, support & a sense of community
More 👉 brnw.ch/21wVqxR
@goodgrieffest.bsky.social is a social venture spinout at @bristoluni.bsky.social that brings people together to talk about death & grief, providing information, support & a sense of community
More 👉 brnw.ch/21wVqxR
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💥 COMING UP: Join Suzannah V Evans (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) for the launch of her debut poetry collection, Under the Blue
Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy
📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm
📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv
Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy
📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm
📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv
August 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
💥 COMING UP: Join Suzannah V Evans (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) for the launch of her debut poetry collection, Under the Blue
Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy
📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm
📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv
Told through a series of prose poems & postcards, Under the Blue is a meditation on humanity & empathy
📅 Fri 5 September, 7-9pm
📍 @bookhaus.bsky.social
🎟️ bit.ly/3V9L7Nv
Bristol Balloon Fiesta took over the skies this weekend! 📸 by Dr Ronald Musto, including of the balloons rising up early on Saturday morning…
August 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Bristol Balloon Fiesta took over the skies this weekend! 📸 by Dr Ronald Musto, including of the balloons rising up early on Saturday morning…