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The annual series inspired by the lectures delivered in Bristol by Coleridge in 1795.

The Bristol2015 project inspired by the Romantic poets.

Events marking the 500th anniversary of Thomas More's Utopia.

The story of the festival since 2005.

Is democracy in serious decline? Is dictatorship on the rise? Could it happen here? If so – how do we spot the signs? Ece Temelkuran, one of Turkey’s best-known political commentators, has reported on democracy worldwide. She heard ‘it couldn’t happen here’ on the night of the Brexit vote; when Trump won in America (against […]

Afua Hirsch offers a personal exploration of British identity, the everyday racism that plagues our society and our troubled relationship with our history. We believe we are a nation of abolition, but forget that we are a nation of slavery. We are convinced that fairness is one of our values, but that immigration is one […]

Over the centuries, Bristol has provided the backdrop to many colourful novels and poetry, and has been the subject of much rich historical analysis in biographies and non-fiction works. With help from our friends, colleagues, booksellers and librarians around Bristol, we have compiled this reading list of some of the best examples of Bristol in […]

The inspiring programme of discussion and debate throughout the year.

Links to PDFs of brochures for past events.

Not far away, the Canadian polemicist and painter Wyndham Lewis had equally taut feelings about the unforeseen appeal of war. Agog at the scale of the ‘unseen orchestra’ that pounded away in his artillery lines, Lewis surveyed the awful majesty and ‘sinister expectancy’ of the Front and, with typical bravado, ‘plunged into the romance of battle’:  If your mind is of […]