Interested in the history of women's anger and Chinese medical cultures? Read our latest fascinating blog post by our very own Zhaokun Xin, which spotlights two new articles. sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Two new articles on the literary exploration of emotions in Ming China

sites.manchester.ac.uk

University of Hertfordshire closes a swathe of Humanities courses, accelerating the sweeping tide against Human-centred disciples in the UK. Because understanding humans is so yesterday today. With such happy consequences, as we see when we look around us.

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Aye. Heard today that my university is closing UG History, Philosophy, English Lit, Linguistics, and Creative Writing in one go.

You can now read mine and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social new article about the remedies 18thc women took six weeks before birth. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Read our latest blog post on Dr Ingrid Rembold's research on churches and virtue signalling in the Carolingian World. sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

New article 'Widows, orphans and churches: protection and virtue signalling in the Carolingian world'

sites.manchester.ac.uk

New special issue on Imaging Heritage Science Innovation by members of our Collective! sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

New Special Journal Issue on Imaging Heritage Science Innovation at Manchester

sites.manchester.ac.uk

Read our latest blog post about groundbreaking proteomics research on early modern medical and cosmetic recipes, by @stefanhanss.bsky.social and colleagues sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Global News Echo of New Proteomics Research on Early Modern Medical and Cosmetic Recipes

sites.manchester.ac.uk

The Whitworth's 'Albrecht Dürer's Material World' exhibition (2023-24) inspires new musical composition by University of Manchester composer Camden Reeves: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Melancholia & the Angel: How The Whitworth's exhibition, Albrecht Dürer's Material World, inspired a new musical composition

sites.manchester.ac.uk

Prof Stefan Hanß and Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera win the 2024 Book of the Year Award of the Association of Dress Historians! Read a Q&A with the authors of "In Between Textiles, 1400-1800: Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters" (AUP, 2023): sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

2024 ADH Book of the Year Award Interview

sites.manchester.ac.uk

@drhollyfletcher.bsky.social wins the ESEH St Andrews Prize for Environmental History! Read all about it here! sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Dr Holly Fletcher wins ESEH article prize for environmental history

sites.manchester.ac.uk

Read the second of two blog posts in which Ifeoma Akobi from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University, reflects on the connections between past and present approaches to sleep care sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Sleep and Self-care

sites.manchester.ac.uk

Read the first of two blog posts in which Ifeoma Akobi from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University, reflects on the connections between past and present approaches to sleep care: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Sleep Botanics: Past and Present

sites.manchester.ac.uk

#History #SkyStorians 2025 @hisjournalha.bsky.social Research Bursary scheme is now open! Available: 1 ECR award & 1 mid-career researcher award, each worth up to £1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

For any PhD Students or ECRs in search of support in preparing their first journal article for publication, do check out this exciting workshop, run by @hisjournalha.bsky.social! www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs

history.org.uk

See below for exciting information about Research Bursaries for ECRs and Mid-Career Researchers to support publications in @hisjournalha.bsky.social

History: The Journal of the Historical Association@hisjournalha.bsky.social · last yr.

#History #SkyStorians 2025 @hisjournalha.bsky.social Research Bursary scheme is now open! Available: 1 ECR award & 1 mid-career researcher award, each worth up to £1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

I’m so thrilled by this news and extremely grateful to the many people who have supported me with this! Looking forward to starting the project “Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World” in 2026! 🎉

Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective@bemccollective.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to our very own @joshuarushton8.bsky.social who has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project "Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World". Read all about it here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Congratulations to our very own @joshuarushton8.bsky.social who has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project "Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World". Read all about it here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Dr Joshua Rushton wins Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

sites.manchester.ac.uk

Here is the latest fantastic interview in @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social's series 'New Directions in the History of the Body'. Here, Professor Karen Harvey, @kharveyhistory.bsky.social, discusses her portfolio of work on the body's material history sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

New Directions in the History of the Body – Holly Fletcher in Conversation with Karen Harvey

sites.manchester.ac.uk

I’ve been interviewed about our new book by the bodies, emotions and material culture collective @bemccollective.bsky.social @kategibson.bsky.social

Faith in the Town: Lay Religion in Northern Towns, 1740-1830: An Interview with Professor Hannah Barker

sites.manchester.ac.uk

Read this fascinating interview by our very own @historyhannahb.bsky.social about her new co-authored book 'Faith in the Town: Lay Religion in Northern Towns, 1740-1830', which is hot off the press with Oxford University Press: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Faith in the Town: Lay Religion in Northern Towns, 1740-1830: An Interview with Professor Hannah Barker

sites.manchester.ac.uk

Congratulations to Joshua Rushton, whose article 'The Emotional Dimension of Shrine Formation in Early Modern Catholicism' is now out in Cultural and Social History. Read more about this fascinating work here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

New Cultural and Social History Article by Dr Joshua Rushton

sites.manchester.ac.uk

Congratulations to @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social who has received a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for 'The Fats of Life, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine', which she will take up at UCL in autumn 2025. Read more about this fascinating project here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Dr Holly Fletcher Receives Wellcome Trust Early Career Award

Holly Fletcher, who is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the ‘Sleeping Well’ Project at the University of Manchester, has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for ...

sites.manchester.ac.uk