- New University Library granted planning approval 17 March 2021The University has been successful in its planning application for the new University Library (NUL). The University submitted its planning application to Bristol City Council in January 2020 following an extensive consultation with a wide range of stakeholder groups including staff, students, local residents and neighbours, the wider community, and Bristol City Council. Architect's…
- Meet the teams behind the new University Library - Archivist and Special Collections Manager, Library Service - Hannah Lowery 16 June 2020Plans for the new, flagship University Library (NUL) are making their way through the planning application process with Bristol City Council. In this series, we learn more about the teams involved in the NUL project. Here Archivist and Special Collections Manager, Hannah Lowery, talks about what it's like to work in Special Collections. Q: What are the…
- From Medieval manuscripts to the Brunel bridge construction – take a virtual tour of the Special Collections 8 April 2020The University of Bristol Special Collections team has been hard at work to make finding items in the collection and researching them easier. The collections, which make up the Cultural Collections together with the Theatre Collection, holds more than 5km of books, archives, photographs, and artefacts dating from the eleventh to the twenty-first century. [caption…
- A new University Library; reaching another milestone, what's exciting about this, and sharing your thoughts 4 March 2020February has seen us reach a key milestone in submitting a planning application for our new University Library and improvements to the public spaces around the site. Following a period of consultation with students, staff and the wider local community, we have submitted the planning application to Bristol City Council. The new building will feature…
- Landmark copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover will reside in New University Library 7 November 2019When the full, unedited edition of Lady Chatterley’s Lover was first published by Penguin Books in Britain in 1960, it prompted a trail so substantial that it helped define a publisher’s freedom to print explicit material in…
- Video - October 2019 update 22 October 2019
- Come along and have your say on proposals for our new University library 18 September 2019We have developed our latest design for the landmark new University Library, including exciting plans to transform the area around Tyndall Avenue in Clifton. The plans include a new civic square, with proposed new road layouts to improve traffic flow, enhance the pedestrian and cycling routes and make the whole area enjoyable, safer and accessible…