#History #Skystorians New issue klaxon! Great articles on Viking fleets, the burning of women in medieval England, Victorian liberalism in global context, women's football and protests in Nigeria, left internationalism, and maritime geopolitics in the Cold War onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1468229x...

@sashahandley.bsky.social and I wrote about the relationship between sleep and scent in early modern England (and today!) for @historyworkshop.org.uk 💤 This is a companion piece for our latest article which you can read open access here: doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

Interested in the relationship between sleep and scent? Read about its historical roots here

I'm really excited to be presenting at this event on Friday with @sashahandley.bsky.social exploring lived experience and co-production in HE and heritage. We'll be talking about our work on @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lived-expe...

If you missed my RHS lecture last week, then you can catch a recorded version on the Society's website: see the link below :)

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...

More publication news!! @sashahandley.bsky.social and my new co-authored article, 'Sleep, Scent, and Household Medical Care in Early Modern England', is now available open access in @historyworkshop.org.uk ! Based on research for @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

We are reaching out to mid-career historians who specialise in 17th-century British history! 📜 The IHR Ian Roy Mid-Career Library Bursary offers support for travel and accommodation for research using the IHR's incredible library collections in London. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409 🎉🎉🎉 To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...

I'm excited to return to ghostly research in my forthcoming lecture for the Royal Historical Society, at the University of Warwick on 1 May 2026. To register: Online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-haunti... [eventbrite.co.uk] In person: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1983439987... [eventbrite.co.uk]

Delighted that my new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk, co-authored with @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social, is now published! Thanks to all who read and heard earlier versions of this @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded research :) academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-... [track.smtpsendmail.com]

The fact that a woman has become the #archbishopofcanterbury is not the astounding progress that it might seem, given that women were preaching in 1641! But they were vilified for doing so by the Church of England, which has taken a very long time to revise that view #earlymodern

JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...

We recently delivered a pilot wellbeing programme at Salford's wonderful Ordsall Hall. Watch our participants reflecting on how engaging with historical archives and methods improved aspects of their wellbeing www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Tq7...

I'm so excited to read, 'The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance' by @stefanhanss.bsky.social , which has just been published in The American Historical Review. It's groundbreaking work! academic.oup.com/ahr/advance-...

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...

If the marketing team is struggling to understand what universities do and are for, they can read this by a former Warwick professor, HoD, research centre founder/director and PVC. 3/3

#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...

Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs - @hisjournalha.bsky.social is organising this event on 19 September for those looking for support with preparing their first journal articles for publication. Do think of applying! www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...

Congratulations to @joshuarushton8.bsky.social on the award of your Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Amazing news!

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!

Fully-funded PhD scholarship opportunity on project on ‘The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750)’ at the University of Manchester. Supervised by me and my wonderful colleague Tabitha Tuckett in collaboration with Chetham’s Library. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Ok, teaching is over and I am finally about to return to our talk boards to see all the exciting things our volunteers have been highlighting in our #EarlyModern wills! If you would like to join the hunt click here www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... 📜💍👞👗🧀🪑🐮🗡️📚🫖💰🗃️

I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here. #skystorians uk.bookshop.org/p/books/vani...

Always exciting to get cover proofs - this will be out next spring

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...

🎺🎺It’s taken a while, but I finally got the go ahead today: my book The Word made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600-1720 will be out on Routledge early next year.🎺🎺 Excited to share it, excited to explore new things! #EarlyModern

Our own @sashahandley.bsky.social wrote about the relationship between flax and hemp and sleep over on our blog!