World Sleep Day

by k52936es | Mar 17, 2023 | Uncategorised

Sleeping Well About People Events Project findings Historical Healing 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 happening...

Sleep and Apples: Wassailing and Apple Moyse Making

by k52936es | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorised

Sleeping Well About People Events Project findings Historical Healing 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. At...

Halloween and sleep

by k52936es | Jan 11, 2023 | Uncategorised

Sleeping Well About People Events Project findings Historical Healing 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 and...

Sleeping Well at Ordsall Hall with Anna Fielding

by k52936es | Nov 7, 2022 | Uncategorised

Sleeping Well About People Events Project findings Historical Healing 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 at...

Bedding ‘Down’ in Early Modern England

by k52936es | Nov 2, 2022 | Uncategorised

Sleeping Well About People Events Project findings Historical Healing Blog In the next instalment of our mini-series ‘Materials of Sleep’, Dr Holly Fletcher explores the role of plant ‘down’ in the bedding materials of early modern England and early...