In 2022, the Theatre Collection acquired the archive of Up the Feeder, Down the Mouth, a 2001 production based on interviews with former dockers. First shared at Bristol Old Vic, the show’s success ensured a second run at M Shed …

What did the project involve? 

This project sought to explore the role libraries have played, and play, in people’s lives: Life with books, but also the wider role libraries have played in terms of encounters with books/people/ideas, belonging, stimulating the …

Léon Brunschvicg (1869-1944) was, alongside Henri Bergson, the central figure in Francophone philosophy at the turn of the 20th century. His work represents a shift from the “Spiritualist” and Positivist philosophical heritage of the 19th century to a historicised neo-Kantianism …

“Our garden in St Pauls is not only the patches of land that we are symbolically reclaiming from years of neglect as rubbish dumps and drug needle debris. It is the individuals and communities who daily engage in a fight …

Section 28 (Local Government Act 1988) stipulated that local authorities should not ‘intentionally promote homosexuality’. It was a key facet of Thatcher’s Britain – a context where HIV/AIDS was sometimes not only linked to but also blamed on gay men. …

In 2018, Amy King conducted a series of oral history interviews with former dockers who worked on the Bristol City Docks. She used sections of these interviews, and clips from existing interviews archived at Bristol’s M Shed, to create …

People living through the years 1940-1970 saw huge changes to healthcare in the UK through the establishment and subsequent embedding of provision through the NHS. Little is documented about their experiences of these changes to primary care, or their attitudes …

The print shop of the hand press period is an early modern exemplar of critical making and co-production: hand press books were and are the products of many hands, hands which are often rendered invisible by the final product. This …

This Ideas Exchange was prompted by the drive to share knowledge, inform, challenge, and create an alternative perspective and narrative regarding Bristol and its connection to Transatlantic enslavement and its legacy. The aim was to approach memorialisation, memory, and healing …