
Sasha Handley
@sashahandley
Early modern history of sleep, supernatural, and material culture. Professor @uomhistdept. Optimistic Nottingham Forest supporter.
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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4662-7162 05-11-2010 09:58:01
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Thank you all friends, colleagues and Stanford Press for making this happening ❤️


The Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World team has been doing some amazing work as part of their Wellcome project. You can read about their final public engagement event Ordsall Hall on our blog 👇🏻! Sasha Handley Dr Holly Fletcher sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

It's finally happening!! Please, join us next 3-4 October University of Liverpool for two days of academic, curatorial & artistic engagements with #Indigenous Material Histories. Registration 👉 shorturl.at/XqhCx Humanities & Social Sciences @ Uni of Liverpool Archaeology, Classics & Egyptology at Liv Uni Liv Uni History National Museums Liverpool World Museum 🌎 Manchester Museum


Read about Dr Holly Fletcher 's fab new article on the environmental influences that shaped early modern bedding materials Institute of Historical Research @UoMhistdept Wellcome

I'm on BBC Radio 4's The Long View at 9am tomorrow morning, talking to Jonathan Freedland and guests Tom Symonds & Madeleine Sumption about small boats and cross-channel migration from the sixteenth century to the present day. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…


Wonderful new article by Natalie Zemon Davis and Stefan Hanß reflecting on historians' experiences of censorship and scholarship. The Historical Journal

Read the latest fascinating instalment of Dr Holly Fletcher 's series 'New Directions in the History of the Body' - this time in conversation with Luna Dolezal

Join us on Wednesday at 4pm for the first session of this year's #AffectiveArtefacts - with Dr Holly Fletcher and Noelle Duckmann Gallagher discuss fat bodies in early modern culture! @UoMhistdept School of Arts, Languages and Culture

What might 'septialicum' refer to in this 17th c. recipe for a medicinal plaster? ‘Make 2 socks of sheeps leather, spread them over with implastrum septialicum the socks must be as long as the feet … it restoreth and settleth the braine.’ Herbal History Research Network Dr Lisa Smith 🙏


Join us tomorrow for the latest instalment of Affective Artefacts, with Dr Abi Greenall on "Material Happiness in Early Modern Households" 👇

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 Stefan Hanß and Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, whose book "In Between Textiles, 1400-1800: Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters" is shortlisted for the prestigious R.L. Ship Memorial Book Award of the Textile Society of America! Needless to say, it is a wonderful read!


My Routledge History, Heritage Studies & Archaeology Mediterranean microhistory of the Salvago dragomans & their experiences in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans, 1550-1650, is now published also as PAPERBACK for only £39.99! (with Black Friday madness included it costs even only £29.99!) 👉🏿t.ly/6ljuO

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...


