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Flax processing at Ordsall Hall - stage 1. Nice to see one of the legacies of @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social in action as they move a step closer to creating linen today

Honoured to have won the @eseh.bsky.social St Andrews Prize for my article 'Making Beds in Early Modern England'! You can read more about the prize below and check out the article here: academic.oup.com/histres/arti... #ESEH2025 @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social

Making beds in early modern England: sleep, matter and environmental change*

Abstract. Bringing environmental history, the history of medicine and the history of poverty into conversation with material culture studies, this article

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

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

I’ve been designing & running creative health workshops that help people explore historical research into early modern sleep as part of @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social. Hearing that the benefits of creative health can show up in biological markers is incredible! open.spotify.com/episode/3tl1...

The arts: can creativity help mental health?

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The second part of our blog series with Visiting Scholar Ifeoma Akobi is now available here. Ifeoma explores the connections between the work of the project on sleeping well in the past and her own work on sustained wellbeing. sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Sleep and Self-care

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We're really happy to feature a mini blog series from Ifeoma Akobi who joined us as a visiting scholar in 2024. In this first blog, Ifeoma introduces us to her own work and the places, people and plants she encountered during her time with us. #earlymodern sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Sleep Botanics: Past and Present

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We've had a fantastic couple of days at our project conference with engaging presentations and insightful keynotes from Sara Miglietti and Marcy Norton. Thanks to all our presenters and attendees and to the John Rylands Research Institute and Library for hosting us.

FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe... #EarlyModern 🗃️

And secondly, Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (UPenn) - 'Feeding, Eating, and Transforming Bodies: Interspecies Relationships and Subject Formation in the Early Modern Atlantic World' See the full programme and join the waitlist for spare tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and... 2/2

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)

University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

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We have two very exciting keynote papers for the upcoming and (now sold out!!) @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social conference 'Bodies & Environments in the Early Modern World' Firstly, Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute) - 'What was "environment" in the early modern period?' 1/2

Last two tickets remaining for our conference! 😀 Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World, 9th-10th June 2025 at JRRIL, Manchester. More info and booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)

University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

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Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)

University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

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Really excited to share this amazing news and very much looking forward to starting the project @uclhistory.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Read more about it on the @bemccollective.bsky.social blog and watch this space!!

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

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...

Registration is now open for @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social's conference 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World', 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Check out our AMAZING programme and register for free here: shorturl.at/SFrEK. Limited spaces available!

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)

University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

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Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)

University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

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Did you know ASEH is starting an open-access online journal? Germinate: Environmental History Review is accepting content now! Learn more here: aseh.org/Germinate-En...

Our very own @sashahandley.bsky.social and Abi Greenall are talking about their work on soporific recipes in Dublin tomorrow at 4pm!

Danielle Clarke@rhetorician.bsky.social · last yr.

#earlymodern Dublin people; this looks like a really great talk tomorrow UCD Humanities Institute at 4pm

📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

Can anyone think of any instances when a mother might be deemed 'unnatural' in the period c.1700-1900? I've got the more obvious things like infanticide, but I'm looking to branch out into other subversive female behaviours.

Don’t forget our CfP for our long 18thc @bsecs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference in Bath 30-31st July on the theme of facades! Closes on 21st March. We can’t wait to welcome you to Bath Spa and the city! #skystorians #18c #19c #17c Please share with anyone interested!

We're so excited to have some films about our work with Ordsall Hall in Salford to share with you. This first one explains how we worked with their team to transform our academic research about early modern sleep into practical activities for their visitors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4wv...

Sleeping Well Intro film

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We're so excited to have some films about our work with Ordsall Hall in Salford to share with you. This first one explains how we worked with their team to transform our academic research about early modern sleep into practical activities for their visitors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4wv...

Sleeping Well Intro film

YouTube video by Gavin Repton

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Coming up in March, we look forward to hosting this year's 'History and Archives in Practice' day conference, on Weds 5th, with partners @ihr.bsky.social and The National Archives bit.ly/3XlcLbW #HAP25's theme is ‘Working with Memory', with contributions from historians and archivists #Skystorians

We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to postgrad@bsecs.org.uk by the 21 March 2025 Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5 #BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

📢Academic Job Klaxon📢 Our Inventing Futures team is growing - we’re looking for three early career researchers in Early Modern European History, French, and Italian Studies. Could you be one of our new colleagues? Learn more and apply here: tinyurl.com/4w9ssbxe

Last chance to submit an abstract for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference, CFP closes tomorrow!

Sasha Handley@sashahandley.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

We are delighted to announce our #CfP for 'Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800'! Please email your abstracts (300 words) and bios to @zarakesterton.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social, by 14 March 🪴

Don't forget to submit your abstract in for our June conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' - speaker expenses will be covered and we have two amazing keynotes in Marcy Norton & Sara Miglietti!

Sasha Handley@sashahandley.bsky.social · 2y ago

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

12 days until the deadline for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference so still plenty of time to put something together!

Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World@sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're so excited to release the CFP for our upcoming conference on 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. We're able to cover reasonable travel expenses for speakers. More detail at the link below. Deadline for abstract submission: 3rd Feb 2025.

This sounds like an excellent workshop, particularly questions on 'How can historians study weathering through human and non-human bodies?': lots of relevance to our upcoming conference on bodies and environments!

Animesh Chatterjee@researchnotesstudio.com · 2y ago

Excited to share a report on the #weatheringworkshop @greenhouseuis.net. Read the full report here: www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhist #envhum #histstm