Compassion and Care: Emotions and Experience in the Care of Children through HistoryThe John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Manchester23-24 March 2023An interdisciplinary conference bringing together researchers working on careexperience, including...

The new article“The Lute of Wisdom”: Alchemy, the Body, and Medicine in the Material Renaissanceby Umberto Veronesi (NOVA University of Lisbon) and Stefan Hanß (University of Manchester) has been now published open access in Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual...

Two new open access publications by Nick Overton and Julian Thomas on the role of organics in writing narratives of the past, and the ways that scientific dating can challenge traditional chronological frameworks. The role of organic remains, or ‘Ecofacts’, in our...

We celebrate the publication of Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy, the new monograph of Dr Cordelia Warr.Cordelia is Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester, and an esteemed member of The Bodies, Emotions and...

This interview discusses the recent volume Scribal Practice and the Global Cultures of Colophons, 1400–1800, edited by Dr Christopher Bahl (Durham) and Dr Stefan Hanß (Manchester), the latter a member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective. Professor...

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...

This lecture will take place on 10 November, 4pm, at Samuel Alexander Building (room tbc)Between 1440 and 1720, more than 2 million enslaved people from a range of African kingdoms and territories were forcibly transported to the Americas; tens of thousands more...

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

This blog entry is written by Dr Stephen Mossman.The exhibition Transitions in Print: Revealing Secrets of the European Printing Revolution, which is open at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library 12 October 2022 – 18 March 2023, showcases a series of...

This blog entry has been written by Florrie Badley. On 24th June 2022, postgraduate students form the University of Manchester, alongside members of the general public, attended an object handling workshop at The John Rylands Research Institute and Library. Attendees...