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‘The Emotional Dimension of Shrine Formation in Early Modern Catholicism’, by Dr Joshua Rushton has been published in the latest issue of Cultural and Social History.  Shrines were always important for early modern Catholics as sites of healing, salvation, miracles,...

The Environmental Humanities Research Network (EHRN) is a new NWCDTP-funded research collective designed to create an interdisciplinary, cross-institutional community of PhD students working in the Environmental Humanities across the Northwest of England. Our goal is...

In-Between Textiles, 1400-1800: Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters, shortlisted for the 2024 Book of the Year Award of the Association of Dress Historians, has been unveiled to be also one of three finalists for the highly prestigious R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award...

In this series for The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective blog, Dr Holly Fletcher interviews leading scholars on the subject of the history of the body. For this post she spoke to Professor Luna Dolezal, an expert on embodied philosophy, about her...

By Stefan HanßThis blog entry discusses the newly published article by Natalie Zemon Davis and Stefan Hanß, “Experiencing Exclusion: Scholarship after Inquisition,” The Historical Journal (2024): 1–16, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000311.When the US was gripped...

The book Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834 (Oxford, 2022) by University of Manchester Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Kate Gibson has won the 2022 Women’s History Network book prize. Kate shared the £500 prize with joint winner Jane Freeland for her...

‘Making Beds in Early Modern England: Sleep, Matter and Environmental Change’ by Dr Holly Fletcher has been published in the August edition of Historical Research. This article brings environmental history, the history of medicine and the history of poverty into...

Dr Jenny Spinks - University of Melbourne, curator and project lead.Albrecht Dürer’s Material Renaissance – an exhibition of rare works sourced from the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria collections – is on display at Arts West Gallery, University of...

We are delighted to announce that Affective Artefacts is back for another year of fantastic interdisciplinary research. As well as a resheduled event from last year's programme on early modern witch bottles, this year we are celebrating the path-breaking research of...

On Sunday 22 September we had our final workshop of the ‘Sleeping Well at Ordsall Hall’ programme. This two-year engagement project, funded by the Wellcome Trust and led by Professor Sasha Handley, has delivered sleep-themed workshops for the general public, schools...