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 globe...

Francisco Guevara is a visual artist and independent scholar whose conceptual art practice focuses on revealing the entanglements between art, power, and the writing of art history, examining how they shape perceptions of identity and the ‘body.’ His work spans a wide...

New Exhibition!The Germanisches Nationalmuseum—the largest museum of cultural history in the German-speaking region—has launched the new special exhibition Global Nuremberg, 1300–1600. What is the Exhibition About?This special exhibition explores the global networks...

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, Albrecht Dürer's Material World, inspired him to write the new musical composition 'Melancholia & the Angel'. The...

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 European print cultures, particularly in relation to science, health, and medicine. In this post, Julia reflects...

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 Early Modern England: Sleep Matter and Environmental Change’, published in Historical Research in 2024. The...

In this post, Professor Sasha Handley interviews Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera and Professor Stefan Hanß about their award-winning volume In-Between Textiles, 1400-1800: Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters (Amsterdam University Press, 2023).Sasha Handley: Dear Beatriz...

Congratulations to our own Dr Joshua Rushton, who has secured a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for the project "Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World”. He will take up his award in 2026 at the University of Manchester. Josh’s project...