The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective blog
The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective presents here its most recent discussions about the interplay between bodies, emotions, objects and materials in past and present societies, in research and teaching. Stay tuned for exciting blog posts and announcements.
The Environmental Humanities Research Network
The Environmental Humanities Research Network (EHRN) is a new NWCDTP-funded research collective designed to create an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional community of PhD students working in the Environmental Humanities across the Northwest of England. Our goal is...
In-Between Textiles on the Textile Society of America’s R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award Shortlist
In-Between Textiles, 1400-1800: Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters, shortlisted for the 2024 Book of the Year Award of the Association of Dress Historians, has been unveiled to be also one of three finalists for the highly prestigious R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award...
New Directions in the History of the Body: Holly Fletcher in Conversation with Luna Dolezal
In this series for The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective blog, Dr Holly Fletcher interviews leading scholars on the subject of the history of the body. For this post she spoke to Professor Luna Dolezal, an expert on embodied philosophy, about her...
The Historian’s Experience of Political Persecution: New Autobiographical Article by Natalie Zemon Davis, with a Foreword by Stefan Hanß
By Stefan HanßThis blog entry discusses the newly published article by Natalie Zemon Davis and Stefan Hanß, “Experiencing Exclusion: Scholarship after Inquisition,” The Historical Journal (2024): 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000311.When the US was gripped...
Dr Kate Gibson Wins the Women’s History Network Book Prize
The book Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834 (Oxford, 2022) by University of Manchester Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Kate Gibson has won the 2022 Women’s History Network book prize. Kate shared the £500 prize with joint winner Jane Freeland for her...
New Historical Research Article by Dr Holly Fletcher
‘Making Beds in Early Modern England: Sleep, Matter and Environmental Change’ by Dr Holly Fletcher has been published in the August edition of Historical Research. This article brings environmental history, the history of medicine and the history of poverty into...
Melbourne Exhibition ‘Albrecht Dürer’s Material Renaissance’
Dr Jenny Spinks - University of Melbourne, curator and project lead.Albrecht Dürer’s Material Renaissance – an exhibition of rare works sourced from the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria collections – is on display at Arts West Gallery, University of...
UPCOMING SEMINAR SERIES: Affective Artefacts is back!
We are delighted to announce that Affective Artefacts is back for another year of fantastic interdisciplinary research. As well as a resheduled event from last year's programme on early modern witch bottles, this year we are celebrating the path-breaking research of...
Sleeping Well at Ordsall Hall
On Sunday 22 September we had our final workshop of the ‘Sleeping Well at Ordsall Hall’ programme. This two-year engagement project, funded by the Wellcome Trust and led by Professor Sasha Handley, has delivered sleep-themed workshops for the general public, schools...
UPCOMING EVENT: 9 October, Dr Susanna Ivanic: ‘Objects and Environments in Early Modern Central Europe’
On 9 October Dr Susanna Ivanic from the University of Kent will present in the History Departmental Seminar on ‘Objects and Environments in Early Modern Central Europe.’ The seminar will take place in Roscoe 2.3 at 13:00 and all Collective members are welcome to...
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