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If you’re interested in 17th-century lace made out of human hair, you should probably come see this year’s Witney Antiques exhibition….

#Newpublication - members of the collective might be interesting in this forthcoming and exciting work, edited by Dr Alex Burchmore

Congratulations to ⁦JRRI⁩ fellow Dr Kate Gibson⁩ whose book ‘Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England’ has won the Women’s History Network Book Prize. You can read more about the book and what the judges said about it on our blog 👇🏻 sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

UPCOMING PUBLICATION: Another forthcoming edited volume which will be of huge interest to Collective members! Can’t wait to read it!

Please join us on Wednesday to hear the wonderful Suzanna Ivanic 🇺🇦 I stand with Ukraine presenting on 'Objects and Environments in Early Modern Central Europe', @UoMhistdept Roscoe 2.3, 1pm. School of History at the University of Kent sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

From the inimitable NZD + ⁦Stefan Hanß⁩ this posthumously published article in The Historical Journal is a testament to Natalie’s courage, the creativity of the historian’s critical independent mind, and its power to contest totalitarian tendencies. sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

NEW Blog Post from our very own Dr Holly Fletcher in conversation with Luna Dolezal in the latest instalment of 'New Directions in the History of the Body' sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

Don't forget that this year's Affective Artefacts seminar series kicks off on Wednesday (16th Oct) with what promises to be a fascinating discussion of fat bodies in early modern material and visual culture with Dr Holly Fletcher + Noelle Duckmann Gallgher. @UoMhistdept Manchester English

Happening today at 4pm - Fat Bodies in Early Modern Material and Visual Culture @UoMhistdept Manchester English

On Wednesday 6 November, the Affective Artefacts seminar is delighted to welcome Nigel Jeffries Owen Davies Ceri Houlbrook to speak about 'Early Modern Witch Bottles: Concealed and Revealed', Ellen Wilkinson A3.7, 4pm. Please join us if you can! @UoMhistdept School of Arts, Languages and Culture

Join us tomorrow at 4pm in Ellen Wilkinson A3.7 when @UoMhistdept's own Dr Abi Greenall will present on "Material Happiness in Early Modern Households" in our Affective Artefacts series. School of Arts, Languages and Culture

Super congratulations to Stefan Hanß & Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, whose book "In Between Textiles, 1400-1800: Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters" is shortlisted for the R.L. Shep Memorial Book Award of the Textile Society of America! sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion… @UoMhistdept School of Arts, Languages and Culture

Discover the new "Environmental Humanities Research Network", funded by the NWCDTP, and join a community of PhD researchers with shared interests in all things environmental! @UoMhistdept School of Arts, Languages and Culture sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

Congratulations to @UoMhistdept's own @joshuarushton8 whose fascinating new article, "The Emotional Dimension of Shrine Formation in Early Modern Catholicism" is out now in Cultural and Social History tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Please share the CFP for: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Keynotes are Marcy Norton Marcy Norton (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti @saramiglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June John Rylands Research Institute and Library Manchester. Further details: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

And here's the full CFP link (compressed by 'X' in my first post): sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-well/…

Super new article in P&P by our super colleague Luca Scholz!

Read all about Joshua Rushton's new article 'The Emotional Dimension of Shrine Formation in Early Modern Catholicism' in Cultural and Social History in his new blog post: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

Congratulations to our very own Dr Holly Fletcher who has received a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for the project 'The Fats of Life, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine': sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

Congratulations to our very own Prof Hannah Barker and her co-authors on their new book 'Faith in the Town: Lay Religion in Northern Towns, 1740-1830'. Read Hannah's interview about the book here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…