How do fireworks work? Where do the colours come from? The answers to these questions lie in a millennium-long history of ...

Mimi Wulfsohn investigates the pressures that come with choosing your first year university accommodation and how it could ...

From deadline dread to bedroom claustrophobia, these Gothic classics understand student life and will help you survive university's strangest horrors. Some will take a whole weekend; others can be ...

There could not have been a more perfect venue to host Matilda Mann than Trinity. Trinity, aka Bristol's Trinity Centre, is a towering and ornate Church structure surviving from the Georgian era – now ...

The University of Bristol has a history of research partnerships with the defence sector. Even if the research has civilian applications, can we really separate it from military use? And do these ...

The Louisiana: a relatively unassuming pub-cum-venue in Bristol, perched on a corner beside the river and facing a wall, on the dwindling reaches of what you might still consider the ‘centre’. The ...

Melis looks at why fans seemed to be so torn by the ending of Severance's season two. She discusses why fans were unhappy by ...

Brandon Flowers is one of the most enigmatic and influential frontmen of the 2000s, leading The Killers for over two decades ...

Amber de Waal talks this years Booker Prize shortlist and asks what this selection reveals about masculinity in 2026 ...

Civil disobedience, flaws of capitalism and democratic failings. How do everyday people influence the climate crisis? Dr Oscar Berglund is a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol researching ...

Does not dating short men make you a better feminist? Ellen Rataj-Paynter explores the shortcomings of online 'pink-pilled' ...