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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
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 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...
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...
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
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?'
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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...
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...
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!!
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!
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...
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!
Screenshot of the front page of British Printed Images to 1700. Printed images border the screen on both sides, in the centre is the website title and various links: About, Search, Resources, Research.
📢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...
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...
Slide for the 2025 'History and Archives in Practice' day conference on 5 March with the theme of 'Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance', hashtag #HAP25
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!
A 17th century Dutch painting of pink roses, carnations, cornflowers, and narcissus. The text reads: Call for Papers. Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800. University of Cambridge, 8–9 July 2025.
Text reads: This interdisciplinary conference will examine botanical knowledge exchange among early modern individuals at the periphery of professional science. We will focus on women, domestic workers, artisans, merchants, and enslaved and indigenous naturalists who used plant knowledge in their everyday life, yet did not (or could not) derive a living primarily from botany. Over the course of this conference, and a subsequent publication, we intend to address the following questions: What kinds of people and spaces fostered botanical knowledge outside of traditional institutions of learning? What role did embodied experience play in the acquisition of botanical knowledge? What did the social networks of these practitioners look like, and how did this overlap with or differ from the networks of professional scientists? How was the knowledge of these non-professional practitioners valued (or devalued) by their contemporaries? Reflecting the creative nature of our subject matter, we welcome applications for papers in formats other than traditional presentations. Furthermore, the conference will include a practical workshop with the artist and natural dye expert Nabil Ali. We hope that our creative workshop will feed into participants’ practice and inform their contributions to our proposed publication. This conference will be held in person from 8–9 July at the University of Cambridge. Lunch and refreshments will be included. We aim to offer grants of £150 to contribute towards the cost of travel and accommodation for speakers coming from outside of Cambridge and the surrounding area. Please let us know in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel grant. Please send an abstract of max. 300 words and a short biography to the conference organisers, Lucy Havard (lh655@cam.ac.uk) and Zara Kesterton (zlk21@cam.ac.uk) by Friday 14 March 2025.
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!
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!
@historianjen.bsky.social work is a TBR if you haven't already!