USA archives visit

USA archives visit

Sleeping Well About Connect People Partners Our research Events Resources Blog In March 2023, Leah Astbury, Holly Fletcher and Lucy Elliott travelled to the USA for the project. While there they visited a range of archives and museums, hunting down materials relating...
World Sleep Day

World Sleep Day

Sleeping Well About Connect People Partners Our research Events Resources Blog In celebration of World Sleep Day, we’re reflecting on the progress of our research project Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World, and some of the exciting sleep-based activities...
Sleep and Apples: Wassailing and Apple Moyse Making

Sleep and Apples: Wassailing and Apple Moyse Making

Sleeping Well About Connect People Partners Our research Events Resources Blog Every January, Ordsall Hall celebrates Twelfth Night with the blessing of the apple trees in the orchard. This date would have been 5th January before the English calendar changed in 1752....
Halloween and sleep

Halloween and sleep

Sleeping Well About Connect People Partners Our research Events Resources Blog On Monday 31st October the Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World team from the University of Manchester met visitors in the bedchamber at Ordsall Hall to discuss the history of Halloween...
Sleeping Well at Ordsall Hall with Anna Fielding

Sleeping Well at Ordsall Hall with Anna Fielding

Sleeping Well About Connect People Partners Our research Events Resources Blog My name’s Anna and for the next two years I’ll be working closely with the Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World team at the University of Manchester and staff, volunteers, and visitors...