Now my time with @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social is over, reflecting on our creative health work over the past year with Ordsall Hall in Salford and the potential of creative health and access to academic history research

When you find something you loved on Twitter and then serendipitously see it on Bluesky 😍

Night night Manchester

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...

📢NEW WILLS PROJECT POST!📢 In the post our project Co-Investigator Laura Sangha recounts what happened when she collaborated with musician Chris Hoban in order to explore the wills in our sample. sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Can you import your old twitter account? Oh please say you can!

Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors

#letscreate at the @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Engaging Communities conference at The Lowry, Salford. A stones throw from Ordsall Hall. Community projects and creativity takes time to get right but change is coming.

ICYMI: the many-headed monster has just launched a new mini-series on Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England. Over the next month we celebrating the relaunch of British Printed Image to 1700 by publishing guest posts on the theme. 1st post tomorrow (Thurs)!🗃️ manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

Posset pots on Pottery Throwdown!

Delighted to share this funded PhD opportunity at York, in collaboration with the National Trust. Please share with your #18thC networks.

Lots of exciting abstracts flowing in for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference in June, but still some time to get yours in!

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.

Medlar pie for lunch. On of the perks of working with Ordsall Hall in Salford is the orchard goodies I get!

Bringing my pen tub to work. A lot of them will be too young to know Pauline from League of Gentlemen so I’ll look extra odd 😂

Enjoying this on a lazy Saturday

Me: Early modern history 🗃️ Craft ✂️ Books 📚 Walks 🥾 Food and food history 🥧 Cats 🐈‍⬛ Brews ☕️

It really is lovely here isn’t it - my faith in social media has been restored

Hello! I'm an early modern historian working on the Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World project with Prof. Sasha Handley from Uni of Manchester. My PhD was in gentry commensality in the north west of England and I am now planning a post-doc on the Catholic idea of 'home' *waves*