The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective

Melancholia & the Angel: How The Whitworth’s exhibition, Albrecht Dürer’s Material World, inspired a new musical composition

by mftsssh5 | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorised

The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective About Projects Researchers Events Blog Contact Credits Camden Reeves is Professor of Music at the University of Manchester. In this post, he explains how a visit to The Whitworth’s 2023-2024 exhibition,...

Textured Devotion in Museum Collections

by mftsssh5 | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorised

The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective About Projects Researchers Events Blog Contact Credits Julia Nurse is a Collections Research Lead at Wellcome Collection with a long career within the museum field. She has a particular interest in Early Modern...

Dr Holly Fletcher wins ESEH article prize for environmental history

by mftsssh5 | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorised

The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective About Projects Researchers Events Blog Contact Credits Dr Holly Fletcher has been awarded the 2025 St Andrews Article Prize by the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) for her article ‘Making Beds in...