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...

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...

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

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...

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...

#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...

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

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! 🎉

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...