Melancholia & the Angel: How The Whitworth's exhibition, Albrecht DΓΌrer's Material World, inspired a new musical composition
The Whitworth's 'Albrecht DΓΌrer's Material World' exhibition (2023-24) inspires new musical composition by University of Manchester composer Camden Reeves:
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2024 ADH Book of the Year Award Interview
Prof Stefan HanΓ and Dr Beatriz MarΓn-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):
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Dr Holly Fletcher wins ESEH article prize for environmental history
@drhollyfletcher.bsky.social wins the ESEH St Andrews Prize for Environmental History! Read all about it here!
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Sleep and Self-care
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
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Sleep Botanics: Past and Present
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...
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History Research Bursary Scheme: Early Career and Mid-Career Routes
#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 Β£1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
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Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs
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!
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See below for exciting information about Research Bursaries for ECRs and Mid-Career Researchers to support publications in @hisjournalha.bsky.social
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Iβm so thrilled by this news and extremely grateful to the many people who have supported me with this! Looking forward to starting the project βCatholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern Worldβ in 2026! π
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Dr Joshua Rushton wins Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
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...
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New Directions in the History of the Body β Holly Fletcher in Conversation with Karen Harvey
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
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Faith in the Town: Lay Religion in Northern Towns, 1740-1830: An Interview with Professor Hannah Barker
Iβve been interviewed about our new book by the bodies, emotions and material culture collective @bemccollective.bsky.social @kategibson.bsky.social
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Faith in the Town: Lay Religion in Northern Towns, 1740-1830: An Interview with Professor Hannah Barker
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...
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New Cultural and Social History Article by Dr Joshua Rushton
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...
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Dr Holly Fletcher Receives Wellcome Trust Early Career Award
Holly Fletcher, who is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the βSleeping Wellβ Project at the University of Manchester, has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for ...
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...
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Early modernist. Lecturer at Oxford Conted, IES, AIFS, & WEA. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London, c.1600-1800'. London, suicides, crime & punishment, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers). Co-editor How-to History
Historian and Author at St Andrews (she). Team Leibniz.
Modern Germany, Identity Studies, Food History.
Publications: https://claudiakreklau.wordpress.com/publications/
History PhD - University of Essex - Pregnancy, Midwifery and Childbirth c.1750-1850
Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. β¦ but itβs not just about refugeesβ¦ oh, and still learning about whatβs at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
Dedicated to the love of books, manuscripts, written words in multiple media across the ages. Did we mention books?
Our website = https://manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/
Historian of the social and cultural history of the body, labour, unfreedom, and the market in eighteenth-century Britain.
BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Research Officer @IFP | Global Community Scholar @ SHOT| PhD @iitmadras| History of Science, Technology, Material, Environment, Craft, Education | Fellow @MPIWG
https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/de/people/tskannan
respectably absurd | she/her | own opinions | interests: Ghibli, puns, cats | research: Shax/Marlowe's French; multilingual early modern London; whiteness, affect & ecology in The Winterβs Tale | jenniferenicholson.wordpress.com ORCID: 0000-0002-4375-2961
Dr | Lecturer - Aberystwyth University's Integrated Foundation Year Programme
Currently researching & writing on the (neo-)Victorian corset. Web Manager for the VPFA.
Clarinettist, pianist, recorder player. Occasional potter and painter.
Historian & Researcher ποΈ
Science Museum Group collections π°οΈ
Returned Cardiffian π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
Plant Nerd π±
Views my own. She/her/hi
AHRC Midlands4Cities PhD student at The University of Birmingham, studying Shakespeareβs non-English mothers. Auntie and dog mom.
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Antifa. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare. Prof. d'Emeritus. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
PhD candidate University of Birmingham researching nineteenth century smallpox epidemic in Gloucester. Former nurse, now outreach teacher with hospital education.
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity in the Early Modern British Atlantic, at the University of Birmingham, 12 September 2025: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/eventsnew/nonconformistdialogues/
Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Sidelines in histories of Rochdale and of the Manchester Guardian. UCU Manchester equalities (disabilities) officer. Tired.
Environmental Philosopher | Animal and Environmental Ethics, Multispecies Studies, American Pragmatism | Sawyier Fellow, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Tech | PhD Candidate, Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
History, Art, Architecture, Literature, Philosophy, Politics, Travel.
I donate to wck.org for Gaza.
