Anna
@drannafielding.bsky.social
Early modern history - food, domestic spaces, health, hospitality and socialising, landscape. Where history intersects heritage, creativity, and wellbeing
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🦊 Why not buy my book, Reynard the Fox, for Christmas – the perfect stocking filler! Marina Warner described it as "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling.Reynar" To buy a signed and gift-wrapped book, order directly from me! DM to purchase or go to my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
November 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🦊 Why not buy my book, Reynard the Fox, for Christmas – the perfect stocking filler! Marina Warner described it as "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling.Reynar" To buy a signed and gift-wrapped book, order directly from me! DM to purchase or go to my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
Job hunting sucks!
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Job hunting sucks!
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Our PhD studentship applications are open for 2026 entry and I'm keen to hear from outstanding candidates in history of early modern conflict and/or creative histories.
November 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Our PhD studentship applications are open for 2026 entry and I'm keen to hear from outstanding candidates in history of early modern conflict and/or creative histories.
Flax processing at Ordsall Hall - stage 1. Nice to see one of the legacies of @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social in action as they move a step closer to creating linen today
October 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Flax processing at Ordsall Hall - stage 1. Nice to see one of the legacies of @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social in action as they move a step closer to creating linen today
Now my time with @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social is over, reflecting on our creative health work over the past year with Ordsall Hall in Salford and the potential of creative health and access to academic history research
October 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Now my time with @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social is over, reflecting on our creative health work over the past year with Ordsall Hall in Salford and the potential of creative health and access to academic history research
When you find something you loved on Twitter and then serendipitously see it on Bluesky 😍
An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
October 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
When you find something you loved on Twitter and then serendipitously see it on Bluesky 😍
Night night Manchester
October 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Night night Manchester
I’ve been designing & running creative health workshops that help people explore historical research into early modern sleep as part of @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social. Hearing that the benefits of creative health can show up in biological markers is incredible! open.spotify.com/episode/3tl1...
The arts: can creativity help mental health?
Spotify video
open.spotify.com
September 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I’ve been designing & running creative health workshops that help people explore historical research into early modern sleep as part of @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social. Hearing that the benefits of creative health can show up in biological markers is incredible! open.spotify.com/episode/3tl1...
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📢NEW WILLS PROJECT POST!📢
In the post our project Co-Investigator Laura Sangha recounts what happened when she collaborated with musician Chris Hoban in order to explore the wills in our sample.
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#EarlyModern 🗃️
In the post our project Co-Investigator Laura Sangha recounts what happened when she collaborated with musician Chris Hoban in order to explore the wills in our sample.
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#EarlyModern 🗃️
September 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
📢NEW WILLS PROJECT POST!📢
In the post our project Co-Investigator Laura Sangha recounts what happened when she collaborated with musician Chris Hoban in order to explore the wills in our sample.
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#EarlyModern 🗃️
In the post our project Co-Investigator Laura Sangha recounts what happened when she collaborated with musician Chris Hoban in order to explore the wills in our sample.
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Can you import your old twitter account? Oh please say you can!
September 5, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Can you import your old twitter account? Oh please say you can!
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Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors
Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors
Artwork thought to date from reign of Elizabeth I reveals how those with disposable incomes decorated their homes
Rare and fantastical 16th-century wall paintings which shine light on the interior design tastes of well-off Tudors have been revealed in a former hunting lodge.
Historic England said the wall paintings at The Ashes in Inglewood Forest, Cumbria, were remarkable and warranted extra heritage protection. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors
#letscreate at the @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Engaging Communities conference at The Lowry, Salford. A stones throw from Ordsall Hall. Community projects and creativity takes time to get right but change is coming.
April 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
#letscreate at the @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Engaging Communities conference at The Lowry, Salford. A stones throw from Ordsall Hall. Community projects and creativity takes time to get right but change is coming.
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ICYMI: the many-headed monster has just launched a new mini-series on Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England.
Over the next month we celebrating the relaunch of British Printed Image to 1700 by publishing guest posts on the theme.
1st post tomorrow (Thurs)!🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
Over the next month we celebrating the relaunch of British Printed Image to 1700 by publishing guest posts on the theme.
1st post tomorrow (Thurs)!🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
A new life for ‘British Printed Images to 1700’
Laura Sangha This post introduces our new mini-series Visual Culture in early modern England. Guest posts in the mini-series will be published over the course of the next month – we will add links …
manyheadedmonster.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
ICYMI: the many-headed monster has just launched a new mini-series on Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England.
Over the next month we celebrating the relaunch of British Printed Image to 1700 by publishing guest posts on the theme.
1st post tomorrow (Thurs)!🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
Over the next month we celebrating the relaunch of British Printed Image to 1700 by publishing guest posts on the theme.
1st post tomorrow (Thurs)!🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
Posset pots on Pottery Throwdown!
February 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Posset pots on Pottery Throwdown!
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Delighted to share this funded PhD opportunity at York, in collaboration with the National Trust. Please share with your #18thC networks.
📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Rachel Conroy @curatorrachel.bsky.social #18thC
wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...
wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...
February 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Delighted to share this funded PhD opportunity at York, in collaboration with the National Trust. Please share with your #18thC networks.
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Lots of exciting abstracts flowing in for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference in June, but still some time to get yours in!
Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
January 14, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Lots of exciting abstracts flowing in for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference in June, but still some time to get yours in!
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We're so excited to release the CFP for our upcoming conference on 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. We're able to cover reasonable travel expenses for speakers. More detail at the link below. Deadline for abstract submission: 3rd Feb 2025.
CFP for the 'Sleeping Well' @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social end-of-project conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Taking place 9-10 June 2025 at JRRI, Manchester. Details on our website here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
Deadline 3 Feb. Please share widely!
Deadline 3 Feb. Please share widely!
December 10, 2024 at 12:35 PM
We're so excited to release the CFP for our upcoming conference on 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. We're able to cover reasonable travel expenses for speakers. More detail at the link below. Deadline for abstract submission: 3rd Feb 2025.
Medlar pie for lunch. On of the perks of working with Ordsall Hall in Salford is the orchard goodies I get!
November 28, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Medlar pie for lunch. On of the perks of working with Ordsall Hall in Salford is the orchard goodies I get!
Bringing my pen tub to work. A lot of them will be too young to know Pauline from League of Gentlemen so I’ll look extra odd 😂
November 25, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Bringing my pen tub to work. A lot of them will be too young to know Pauline from League of Gentlemen so I’ll look extra odd 😂
Enjoying this on a lazy Saturday
November 23, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Enjoying this on a lazy Saturday
Me:
Early modern history 🗃️
Craft ✂️
Books 📚
Walks 🥾
Food and food history 🥧
Cats 🐈⬛
Brews ☕️
Early modern history 🗃️
Craft ✂️
Books 📚
Walks 🥾
Food and food history 🥧
Cats 🐈⬛
Brews ☕️
November 22, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Me:
Early modern history 🗃️
Craft ✂️
Books 📚
Walks 🥾
Food and food history 🥧
Cats 🐈⬛
Brews ☕️
Early modern history 🗃️
Craft ✂️
Books 📚
Walks 🥾
Food and food history 🥧
Cats 🐈⬛
Brews ☕️
It really is lovely here isn’t it - my faith in social media has been restored
November 22, 2024 at 10:24 AM
It really is lovely here isn’t it - my faith in social media has been restored
Hello! I'm an early modern historian working on the Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World project with Prof. Sasha Handley from Uni of Manchester. My PhD was in gentry commensality in the north west of England and I am now planning a post-doc on the Catholic idea of 'home' *waves*
November 21, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Hello! I'm an early modern historian working on the Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World project with Prof. Sasha Handley from Uni of Manchester. My PhD was in gentry commensality in the north west of England and I am now planning a post-doc on the Catholic idea of 'home' *waves*