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. 

Astley Hall Virtual Tour

Astley Hall Virtual Tour

The author of this blog entry is Dr Abigail Greenall, Early Career Research Fellow at The John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester.For some years now, Sasha Handley and I have shared a fairly healthy obsession with apotropaic, or evil averting, burn...

The Oak

The Oak

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...

The Manchester Material Culture Lab

The Manchester Material Culture Lab

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