Events from the Regional History Centre (RHC)
Forthcoming events
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.
Colston's last journey
Date: Thursday 21 March 2024
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Online
Colston’s Last Journey is a work of soundart created by writer and poet, Ralph Hoyte, in response to the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in June 2020. Its theme is Bristol and the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans. This event is free and will be held online over Zoom.
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
- History, family history and families: From global to personal - 28 July 2023
- 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
- Decolonising 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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