@drannafielding.bsky.social
Early modern history - food, domestic spaces, health, hospitality and socialising, landscape. Where history intersects heritage, creativity, and wellbeing
Reynard the Fox
Reynard the Fox
Reynard
🦊 Why not buy my book, Reynard the Fox, for Christmas – the perfect stocking filler! Marina Warner described it as "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling.Reynar" To buy a signed and gift-wrapped book, order directly from me! DM to purchase or go to my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
27.11.2025 17:05 — 👍 58 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 10Job hunting sucks!
19.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Our PhD studentship applications are open for 2026 entry and I'm keen to hear from outstanding candidates in history of early modern conflict and/or creative histories.
05.11.2025 08:20 — 👍 21 🔁 28 💬 1 📌 0
Haddon Hall today
26.10.2025 21:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
16.10.2025 13:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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
11.10.2025 14:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When you find something you loved on Twitter and then serendipitously see it on Bluesky 😍
11.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Night night Manchester
04.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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...
13.09.2025 19:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A photo montage showing Laura Sangha and Chris Hoban talking to people, looking at wills, visiting a museum. There are also images of people creating linocuts at a workshop, and of a will.
📢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 🗃️
Actually, quickly checked this and no thank you 😱
05.09.2025 18:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Can you import your old twitter account? Oh please say you can!
05.09.2025 18:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors
04.04.2025 05:20 — 👍 189 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 3
#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.
03.04.2025 16:30 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh wow, thank you Mary! I’ll come and have a look very soon. Love to all at Speke
06.03.2025 14:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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!
23.02.2025 22:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Delighted to share this funded PhD opportunity at York, in collaboration with the National Trust. Please share with your #18thC networks.
04.02.2025 18:09 — 👍 16 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0Lots 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!
14.01.2025 09:50 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0We'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.
10.12.2024 12:35 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
Medlar pie for lunch. On of the perks of working with Ordsall Hall in Salford is the orchard goodies I get!
28.11.2024 12:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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 😂
25.11.2024 13:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Enjoying this on a lazy Saturday
23.11.2024 16:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Me:
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
22.11.2024 10:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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*
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