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 …

“It was the way Deeka told these stories, the events the same, the messages different every time” (Ross, 2008)

Storytelling and practices of orality are fundamental components to Caribbean cultures, both regionally and nationally. Folk characters like Anansi, Compere Lapin, …

This project builds upon the Brigstow funded An Empathetic Realisation of Embodied Grief in Fiction Film (2019) – which led to the production of the short practice-as-research films Lost Property (Dawson, Hay, Rosling, 2022) and Nothing Echoes Here (Hay, 2022) …

This project was a development of a chain of related projects and research. The Brigstow projects ‘Anyone’s Child Mexico’ (2018, a collaboration with Mexicanos Unidos Contra la Delincuencia and Transform Drug Policy Foundation) and ‘Sound Stories’ (2021, a partnership with …

Supporting migrants in processing traumatic memories has been at the forefront of policy priorities since the beginning of the migrant crisis. Discussions tend to develop medicalized and pathologizing approaches to trauma, focusing on first generation migrants’ memories of life-threatening experiences …

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 …

What did the project involve? 

This Ideas Exchange reflected on Artist Louise Jordan’s street performance ‘Pop-Up Pedestal’ to explore how audiences engage with the concept of temporary monuments? After a period of research and preparation as a team, Louise developed …