In this post, Dr Olivia Mitchell describes her new article, which examines descriptions of shortness and Indian political culture.My new article, ‘‘The Smallest Monarch in the World’: Othering, Indirect Rule and Depictions of the Heights of the Begums of Bhopal in the...

The Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded Insight Grant Project Rethinking the Feather Book: History, Art and Science is an international, interdisciplinary project that brings cutting-edge heritage analysis to a unique seventeenth-century...

On Wednesday, 30 September, at 13.00 in Samuel Alexander Building (A201), we will welcome Dr Holly Fletcher (UCL) back to Manchester. Holly is going to speak about her new project:The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World: Matter in Multispecies MedicineThis paper...

Dr Zhaokun Xin has recently published two articles on literary exploration of emotions in Ming dynasty (1368-1644) China. The first piece, titled “Diagnosing, Misdiagnosing, and Rediagnosing Women’s Anger in the Jin Ping Mei,” came out from the Journal of the American...

   In this post, Dr Ingrid Rembold (Manchester) discusses her new article in the English Historical Review.My recent EHR article, ‘Widows, orphans and churches: protection and virtue signalling in the Carolingian world’, is the most aggravating thing I’ve...

A new open access special issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (101, no. 2) features innovative research in imaging heritage science projects conducted at The University of Manchester.The special issue has been co-edited by Stefan Hanß and James Robinson...

Stefan Hanß, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, designed and delivered the first interdisciplinary research project to analyse the biochemical residues of historical users of early modern medical and cosmetic manuscripts. The pathbreaking...

Dr Ali Bennett is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Oxford’s Department of Lifelong Learning, and a former member of the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. In this post, she offers an overview of her new journal article, recently published in...

Dr Rachel Winchcombe has won a prestigious British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her groundbreaking project, Edible Empire: Foodways and the Making and Breaking of Anglo-America. In this blog post, Rachel reflects on the significance of this work.   As the...