This interview discusses the recent volume Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800, edited by Dr Christopher Bahl (Durham) and Dr Stefan Hanß (Manchester), the latter a member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. Professor...

This is a guest blog entry of Georgina Watson, a final-year PhD student at Manchester working on early modern Mediterranean commercial, military and religious interaction between Tuscany and the Ottoman Empire. In focusing on various members of the Tuscan Order of...

This lecture will take place on 10 November, 4pm, at Samuel Alexander Building (room tbc)Between 1440 and 1720, more than 2 million enslaved people from a range of African kingdoms and territories were forcibly transported to the Americas; tens of thousands more...

The Manchester Material Culture Lab is a reading group of Manchester-based researchers interested in material culture studies. These meetings shall engender a dialogue between the disciplines studying material culture in Manchester. We also run work-in-progress...

This blog entry is written by Dr Stephen Mossman.The exhibition Transitions in Print: Revealing Secrets of the European Printing Revolution, which is open at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library 12 October 2022 – 18 March 2023, showcases a series of...

This blog entry has been written by Florrie Badley. On 24th June 2022, postgraduate students form the University of Manchester, alongside members of the general public, attended an object handling workshop at The John Rylands Research Institute and Library. Attendees...

This interview discusses exciting new research by Misha Ewen, a longstanding former member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. Misha has been the Curator for Inclusive History at Historic Royal Palaces and is just about to start a new position as...

This is a guest blog entry by Sarah Fox (University of Birmingham)   My PhD thesis and my book Giving Birth in Eighteenth-Century England both open with the same quote, from a heavily pregnant Betsy Ramsden, the wife of a Surrey schoolmaster and clergyman. Betsy wrote...

‘Feathers and the Making of Luxury Experiences at the Sixteenth-Century Spanish Court,’ a new article by Dr Stefan Hanß, has been published open access in Renaissance Studies.This article charts the activities of featherworkers (plumajeros) at the Habsburg court in...

Cambridge Archaeological Journal has published a new article by Nick Overton, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, entitled ‘Not All That Glitters is Gold? Rock Crystal in the Early British Neolithic at Dorstone Hill, Herefordshire, and the...