Call for Papers'Compassion and Care: Emotions and Experience in the Care of Children through History'The John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Deansgate, Manchester23-24 March 2023Deadline: submissions should be emailed to Kate Gibson (University of Manchester)...

Hannah Cobb, Professor of Archaeology and Pedagogy as well as a member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, has just published the chapter ‘Assembling Wellbeing in Archaeological Teaching and Learning.’The chapter is co-authored with Karina...

Shakespeare mentions sleep in his plays over 380 times, and the word bed over 540 times! Numbers that should prompt us to reflect more on what sleeping actually meant to him and his contemporaries.In this week’s episode of That Shakespeare Life, Manchester historian...

This conference report has been written by Dr Holly Fletcher, Research Associate on the Wellcome Trust-funded project Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World: An Environmental Approach to the History of Sleep Care and member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material...

The Whitworth is one of only two UK 2022 recipients of a prestigious Getty Foundation Award. Created in 2018, The Paper Project funds a variety of projects by curators around the world who study prints and drawings, simultaneously boosting their professional...

Rachel Winchcombe, Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, is this year’s recipient of the Arthur Miller Journal Article Prize, for her piece in Renaissance Studies titled “Reprinting the Colonial Past: Compilation, Inter-Visuality, and...

  Stefan Hanß, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, has co-edited a new volume on early modern colophons. This book is the first to chart the global diversity of colophons between 1400 and 1800. The volume presents a new approach to scribal...

Stefan Hanß, ‘Hair, Emotions and Slavery in the Early Modern Habsburg Mediterranean’, History Workshop Journal 87/1 (2019): 160–187has been awarded the Article of the Month June 2022 Award by The Mediterranean Seminar, an international forum of approximately 1,800...

Register for Integrated Objects: Critical Thinking with Things (23/24 June 2022), the PGR-led conference organised by the Art History and Cultural Practices department at the University of Manchester! For information on how to register, please follow the QR-codes...

Dr Edward Wouk, Reader in Art History and Visual Studies at Manchester University and member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, has published a pathbreaking new English translation of the first substantial art theoretical texts from the Low...