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Professor Jean Golding, founder of Bristol’s unique pioneering project Children of the 90s, celebrated her 80th birthday last year. Last...
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The Father Ted actor Ardal O’Hanlon managed to complete a UK tour of his latest stand-up show, The Showing Off...
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Yesterday, Olivette Otele, the UK’s first black female professor of history, was appointed as Independent Chair for Bristol’s Commission on Race Equality. We look back at our interview with Olivette at the beginning of the year as she began her position as the University of Bristol’s first professor of the...
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Uncharted – the book published earlier this year by philosopher, business mentor and entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan – explains how we...
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The Covid-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in countries across the world, caused a global health crisis and forced economies to...
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As many of us start to dream of freedom and plan our post-pandemic lives, with some looking forward to the first trip abroad and others training hard for postponed sports events, the thrill-seekers amongst us have used lockdown to invent ways to push themselves further and faster than ever before....
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Here we look back at Melissa Blease’s interview with Sir Tony Robinson last year where he talked about his career...
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The delicate work of illustrator Rosanna Tasker has a serenity and peace that makes you wish you lived within her drawn world. Millie...
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Filmmaker and journalist Lindsey Parietti aims to counter the one-sided narratives of chaos and conflict in relation to countries such as Liberia. We recently spoke to Lindsey about her latest three-part series following the lives of orphaned baby chimpanzees. Lindsey didn’t set out to study chimpanzees but the cheeky chaps reeled...
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With a focus on culture, politics and identity, Mandem offers an online space for young men of colour to express themselves...
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International Women’s Day – 8 March – has a sharp contemporary relevance in a culture where the rights of women...
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Bristol-based illustrator Owen Gent describes himself as “not much of a writer”, but he compensates with his powerful visual vocabulary, says Emma Clegg Illustrator Owen Gent is a man of textured layers. He was a signwriter, he used to dive into the sea on the Cornish coast in between lectures,...