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A major monograph arising from the AHRC project Grave Goods: Objects and Death in Later Prehistoric Britain, featuring the work of Dr Melanie Giles (CAHAE) has just been published by Oxbow Books. It considers why we bury things with the dead through the case study of...

Congratulations to Dr Marina Inì, Lecturer in Early Modern History at The University of Manchester and member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, who has received an Honorable Mention by the Committee of the Santorio Award for Excellence in...

Exciting news about external grant capture for Stephen Mossman, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History as well as a member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective! Together with Nikolaus Weichselbaumer (Mainz), Vincent Christlein (Erlangen), and Edward...

Dr Holly Fletcher, Postdoctoral 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 a member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, has been...

Sophie Woodward, Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester and member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, will give her inaugural lecture“Material Potencies and Dormant Things: Expanding a Vital Sociology of the Everyday”9 December...

Welcome to this blog! The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective, originally established as the Embodied Emotions research group in 2015, presents here its most recent discussions about the interplay between bodies, emotions, objects and materials in past...