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History at Bristol
@uobrishistory.bsky.social
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Department of History at the University of Bristol. Our research+teaching includes diverse approaches, from medieval to contemporary, across the globe.
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Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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What’s the collective noun for a group of environmental historians/ environmental humanists?
dudleymarianna.bsky.social Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 4d
Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
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November 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Coming up on day two of Extractive Natures/ Natures of Extraction we have bodies, we have places, and we have power!
dudleymarianna.bsky.social Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 4d
Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
Group photo of 16 academics on a lawn with an autumnal tree and buildings behind them.
November 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Day one of the Extractive Natures/Natures of Extraction workshop, organised by @melinabuns.bsky.social as part of her @britishacademy.bsky.social fellowship here at Bristol @uobrisceh.bsky.social . Great papers that spanned resource extraction from medieval Europe to modern day Australia
Group photo of 16 academics on a lawn with an autumnal tree and buildings behind them.
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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We’re SO excited about this!
willpooley.bsky.social will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 4d
I think lots of you all will be as excited as I am to see Jess Moody’s “Plants, Enslavement and Public History” project website

and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner

plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

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Plant Public History – Plants, Enslavement and Public History: Re-imagining green spaces as places of heritage and healing
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November 7, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Here’s @dudleymarianna.bsky.social introducing her new book to the world, in conversation with CEH co-director Paul Merchant. Everyone go read: ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182968/
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Was great to celebrate Electric Wind with friends and colleagues @uobrisceh.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social . I was most excited about the book-cake. Cake-book. A book made of cake!!!!
A woman in a mustard colour shirt holds up a slab of cake with the cover of her book Electric Wind printed on it.
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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And tomorrow kicks off the ‘Extractive Natures/ Natures of Extraction’ workshop led by our fabulous visiting scholar @melinabuns.bsky.social. Phew! Stay tuned for more!
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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In 5 minutes it’s our very own @dudleymarianna.bsky.social book launch for the beautifully titled Electric Wind! More photos to come! …
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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We are very excited to be joined on Thursday by Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (University of Cambridge) for our next CMS Research Seminar: 'The Place of History in the History of Place: Constructing the Literary Landscapes of Medieval Ireland'. We can't wait! #medievalsky #skystorians
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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'Shamanism is enjoying a double boom in the modern world.'

Prof Ronald Hutton (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) reviews two new books on the subject - Shamanism: The Timeless Religion by @manvir.bsky.social & Shamans by Max Carocci - in a new piece for The TLS

Read 👇

www.the-tls.com/religion/rel...
Shamanism across many cultures
Shamans were real: they were the magico-religious specialists of Siberian peoples of the Tungus ethnic group, who used that name in their own language to
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October 31, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians
CMS; Bristol; University of Bristol; Medieval Studies; MA degree;
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September 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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The stop-motion animation 'Reynard the Fox' -- directed by Maddy Pull, and executive-produced by Dr Kristian Moen and our own Prof Ad Putter -- has made it to the semi-finals of the Animalis Fabula Film Festival, and will be shown in San Antonio in late Nov. 🎉 Huge congrats to all! #medievalsky
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October 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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'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

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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
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October 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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📣 UPCOMING EVENT! 📣

The Hellenic society is launching a new South West and Wales regional network!

🎟️ Sign up: forms.office.com/e/tbYuWrWwNP
⏰October 30th, 2-6PM
📍Humanities Research Space, University of Bristol 1st floor, 7 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1TB
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October 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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🦋 Bridging Histories is a social enterprise which supports everyday people & communities to achieve they changes they want to see.

Led by Dr Joanna Burch-Brown (Philosophy), Bridging Histories hyper-local focus has had global impact, from Bristol to Bosnia & beyond

Watch the video 👉 bit.ly/4oCFh4c
October 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Don’t mind if we do! 🐈‍⬛
uobartsmatter.bsky.social Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 18d
📺 Prof Ronald Hutton (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) joins Rylan Clark & @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on #WitchesOfEssex to investigate the truth behind the British witch trials of the 16th & 17th centuries

Watch the full three-part series on Sky History & Now 👉 bit.ly/47l3e8X
October 29, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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'Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.'

Join Prof Justin Williams at @wshed.bsky.social on Thursday 6-9pm for a new documentary on Hip-Hop in Tanzania

The event is free, open to all & includes a Q&A, food & music!

🎟️ bit.ly/42oG7Ja
October 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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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
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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📺 Prof Ronald Hutton (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) joins Rylan Clark & @profaliceroberts.bsky.social on #WitchesOfEssex to investigate the truth behind the British witch trials of the 16th & 17th centuries

Watch the full three-part series on Sky History & Now 👉 bit.ly/47l3e8X
October 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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You should read Electric Wind. Don't take my word for it -
lisaleziza.bsky.social Lisa Matthews @lisaleziza.bsky.social · 18d
Folks, I've said wow out loud twice reading the first page and at one point my jaw dropped. Blockbuster opening
October 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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We are SO excited to announce that applications are now open for this year's Medieval Studies Summer School! 🎉 Please do pass this information on to anyone you think might be interested!

We'll be sharing some highlights of last year's programme over the next few weeks!

#medievalsky #skystorians
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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‘Low-Carbon Histories for Zero-Carbon Futures’ is out today @jofhistgeog.bsky.social - a collective case for thinking historically about energy. doi.org/10.1016/j.jh...
Climate crisis has made the transition from carbon-rich to low-carbon energy systems an existential necessity for the future of our planet. This article sets out how greater attention to low-carbon energy history, currently a neglected component of modern energy development, should comprise an essential part of building a zero-carbon future. We argue for the usefulness of low-carbon as a capacious term that foregrounds the historic and ongoing relationality between low- and high-carbon energy, and set out the ways this has shaped energy infrastructures, practices, and imaginaries through the twentieth century to the present. We outline a range of analytics—materiality, scaling, community—around which critical understandings of low-carbon energy can be gained. And we show that decarbonization, while urgent, does not have to be speculative: the historical examples provided here offer valuable insights into the social and spatial impacts and temporal challenges of introducing new energy infrastructure and decommissioning old that can, and should, be paid more attention. Title page: Low-Carbon histories for zero-carbon futures, by Elizabeth Chatterjee, Marianna Dudley, Linda Ross, and Hiroki Shin, in the Journal of Historical Geography
October 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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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
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Yesterday, the CMS were lucky enough to see a snapshot 🧑‍🔬📷 of Dr Alexander Zawacki's (@achillghost.bsky.social) work in his seminar on ‘Analysing Manuscripts with MSI’. Thank you for such a fascinating talk Alexander, and thanks also to @benpohl.bsky.social for chairing! #medievalsky #skystorians
October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM