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...

‘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...

Dr Kate Gibson, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective has just published a new book on the history of illegitimate birth in eighteenth-century England.Although historians know a lot about what it was like to...

This blog post presents an interview with Professor Sasha Handley (Manchester) and Dr John Morgan (Bristol), editors of the special journal issue Environment, Emotion and Early Modernity published in Environment and History 28, no. 3 (2022).Sasha is a founding member...

‘A Pair of Ottoman Shoes in Sixteenth-Century Nuremberg’ (Par żarbun Ottomani f’Nuremberg tas-seklu sittax), an interview with Stefan Hanß by Emanuel Buttigieg and Liam Gauci, has been released by Campus FM Malta: Storja-Oġġett (Object History):...

Dr Melanie Giles, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, is among the 85 scholars elected to the prestigious British Academy fellowship this year. The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences with...

Read here Marina Inì’s new blog post on ‘Architecture, Expectations and Emotions in Quarantine’, published with the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. A room of the lazzaretto in Bergamo. © Marina Inì. Related...

The Guardian reports on archaeological excavations led by Professor Julian Thomas, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. Read the story of how 'Arthur’s Stone' inspired storytellers over centuries, and how the team reconstructs the site’s...