🔊🚀Our new suite of resources have LAUNCHED. Step inside the Shakespearean past with our interactive game and web tour and learn more about the everyday worlds of the 16th and 17th centuries in our exhibition. Links below--please share widely: middlingculture.com/digital-resour…

MMU PhD gowns are jazzy aren’t they? I was not expecting that. Appropriate for a PhD on early modern commensality I suppose

We have added some additional spaces on our adult learning bread making workshop this Sunday. Join Dr Anna Fielding to make sourdough, soda bread, and oatcakes while exploring the benefits of grains for sleep past and present. 12-3pm, free, book online ordsallhall.com/event/sw-soda2…

Ordsall Hall perks today - blackcurrants, redcurrants, raspberries, and bundles of rainbow chard

The news is out! I'm thrilled to share that I rediscovered eight 17th-century paper objects made by schoolgirls when Sutton House NT was one of Hackney's many female academies. These paper cuts are an extremely rare example of an art form written about by Hannah Woolley (1/2)

Graduation today. Loved the PhD robes. Nice the wonderful Dr Rosamund Oates got a mention for her CulturesOfDisability work during our ceremony too

We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded full museum accreditation from Arts Council England!!! This a big achievement for a small, independent museum and we couldn't be prouder! 🤩 elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/elizabeth-gask…

This Sunday!🛏 Learn about early modern textiles and try your hand at recreating some of the techniques! During this drop-in session we will be discussing 16th and 17th century bedding textiles, including linens, embroidery, mattress materials and wool. buff.ly/3ybhHqz

What's on this week! 🌞Today - design a Tudor monogram (spaces left this aft!) 🌞Tues - Make a Tudor purse (spaces 1pm & 2pm) 🌞Weds - Sleepy foods: oven baking bread (spaces at 2pm) 🌞Thurs - Clay Play (sold out) Book your summer activities here 👉buff.ly/3XTMN0o

✨ For our 50th anniversary, the AAH asked art history advocates what the subject means to them. In a variety of inspirational ways, they’ve shared their thoughts on why it is important. Collectively their voices reflect #ArtHistoryNow ✨   Learn more: forarthistory.org.uk/art-history-no…

Bristol looking lovely as we start the GEM conference M Shed. Talking tomorrow about Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World Ordsall Hall and the value of learning

This Sunday, join the gardens team at Ordsall Hall to celebrate orchards! Discover how we grow our own fruit and manage our orchard organically. Our Head Gardener Jo will be hosting two free tours of our orchard, each lasting half an hour. More info 👉 buff.ly/3yVwjur

Great few days in Bristol for GEM conference for Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World and Ordsall Hall - talking about our programmes for learners of all ages

Last Sunday we celebrated the end of the @sleepingwell4 project here at the Hall! It was great to see visitors get involved with the activities and to see how far the project has come! #sleepingwell #ordsallhall #freemuseum #freeevent

Just submitted a Leverhulme early career fellowship application 😬

Fab day at the Conscious Sleep Day University of Oxford for Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World with Dr Holly Fletcher and Prof. Sally Shuttleworth. Creating early modern sleep remedies amid a fascinating day of sleep history, sleep science, and sleep and dreams in literature, poetry, and performance

Come and join me over at Blue Sky - like old Twitter. Have your faith in social media restored bsky.app/profile/dranna…

Please share the CFP for: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our 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...

✨ LAST FEW SPACES LEFT! ✨ Join us Ordsall Hall and make your very own Christmas wreath using organic materials, while sipping on a festive drink during this after-hours workshop 🎄🥂 🗓️ Thurs 19 December 🕒 6:30 - 8:30pm 📍 Ordsall Hall ⭐️ £35 buff.ly/3OvDj5z

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