Category: Lectures and events

I’m delighted to have been awarded a small grant from the Being Human Festival to run a public event during the 2023 Festival, which runs from 9–18 November 2023.

‘Finding Medieval Bristol’ is an entertaining and interactive walking tour for families and visitors to Bristol, based on the map of ‘Bristol in 1480: A Medieval Merchant City‘, researched by me and a team of experts and published by the Historic Towns Trust. The themed walk will be led by the theatre company, ‘Show of Strength’, and will feature actors recreating the city as it would have been experienced in 1480 by William Worcestre, whose description of the city in that year was the inspiration for the historical map.

The aim of the Being Human Festival is to celebrate the contribution that research in Arts and Humanities makes to everyday life. I hope that ‘Finding Medieval Bristol’ and its underlying research will increase understanding and appreciation of the city of Bristol and encourage a sense of community belonging.

For further information, contact Helen Fulton, helen.fulton@bristol.ac.uk

We were delighted to welcome Professor Benjamin Hudson from the Department of History at Penn State University for a visit to the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol in February–March 2023. Ben’s visit was funded by the Benjamin Meaker Follow-on Fund, a University of Bristol scheme for supporting return visits from international research collaborators. Ben first visited Bristol as a Benjamin Meaker Fellow in 2019, so this was another opportunity to share our research on medieval borders and borderlands. As an expert in medieval Irish and Atlantic borders, Ben’s research adds an important dimension to the network’s research aims. While in Bristol, Ben worked with Helen Fulton on research questions and methodologies for border research, and Ben delivered a public lecture, ‘Dangerous Company: Five Questions about Macbeth‘, which explored the social context of the historical figure of Macbeth and how Shakespeare had adapted his life to form the basis of his play.

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The Historic Towns Trust, in association with ‘Borders and Borderlands’, is offering a series of online lectures in Spring 2021. The lectures are free, and all are welcome. Register for the lectures using the individual Eventbrite links below each lecture, and you will be sent the Zoom link shortly before each lecture.

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