Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective

Reminder that our first 'Environmental Approaches to the Body' reading group (led by @joshuarushton8.bsky.social) will take place this Wednesday (28 October)!

The reading lists for our upcoming ‘Environmental Approaches to the Body’ sessions are now available on our website! The first reading group will take place on 28 Oct (led by @joshuarushton8.bsky.social) and the second on 2 Dec (led by @manonraffard.bsky.social). We hope to see you there!

Check out our upcoming events for Semester 1! We have lots of exciting sessions planned and we hope to see you there! Further details and reading lists will appear on our website shortly: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Will Clement (@historywill.bsky.social), Lecturer in Modern European History @uomhistdept.bsky.social, to the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective! Find out more about Dr Clement’s research, and other members of our Collective, here:

A feathery feature: @stefanhanss.bsky.social and the Collective’s digital microscopes will help uncover the mysteries of a 400-year-old ‘Feather Book’ held at McGill University Libraries. The project is led by Dr Victoria Dickenson and funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca. Read more on our blog!

We're thrilled to welcome Dr Olivia Mitchell (@livsmitch.bsky.social), Lecturer in Modern History @uomhistdept.bsky.social, to the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective! You can find out more about Dr Mitchell's research, as well as other members of our Collective, here:

We're excited to welcome @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk) back to Manchester to speak about her new project, ‘The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World: Matter in Multispecies Medicine’ (funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Join us on Weds 30th Sept, 13:00, to hear more! Details linked:

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...

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.

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

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...

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...