Sasha Handley
@sashahandley.bsky.social
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Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
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Prof Stefan Hanß and Dr Beatriz Marín-Aguilera win the 2024 Book of the Year Award of the Association of Dress Historians! Read a Q&A with the authors of "In Between Textiles, 1400-1800: Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters" (AUP, 2023):
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2024 ADH Book of the Year Award Interview
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Read the second of two blog posts in which Ifeoma Akobi from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University, reflects on the connections between past and present approaches to sleep care
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Sleep and Self-care
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Read the first of two blog posts in which Ifeoma Akobi from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University, reflects on the connections between past and present approaches to sleep care: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
Sleep Botanics: Past and Present
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If the marketing team is struggling to understand what universities do and are for, they can read this by a former Warwick professor, HoD, research centre founder/director and PVC. 3/3
To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News
Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn
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#History #SkyStorians 2025 @hisjournalha.bsky.social Research Bursary scheme is now open! Available: 1 ECR award & 1 mid-career researcher award, each worth up to £1,500. Deadline *15 August*. For further particulars & downloadable application form, see www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
History Research Bursary Scheme: Early Career and Mid-Career Routes
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Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs - @hisjournalha.bsky.social is organising this event on 19 September for those looking for support with preparing their first journal articles for publication. Do think of applying!

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Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs
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Congratulations to @joshuarushton8.bsky.social on the award of your Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Amazing news!
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Congratulations to our very own @joshuarushton8.bsky.social who has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship for his project "Catholic Renewal and Environmental Change in the Early Modern World". Read all about it here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...
Dr Joshua Rushton wins Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
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Thanks for offering to repost Ria. The deadline for applications has now passed but we will repost with a link for general registration in due course. Cheers
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Don't forget to submit your abstract in for our June conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' - speaker expenses will be covered and we have two amazing keynotes in Marcy Norton & Sara Miglietti!
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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...
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Ok, teaching is over and I am finally about to return to our talk boards to see all the exciting things our volunteers have been highlighting in our #EarlyModern wills!

If you would like to join the hunt click here www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...

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The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Help us transcribe wills from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and reveal how ownership of, and attitudes towards, objects changed in a period of economic transformation
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I’ve finally finished my book on extinction! If you’re interested in reading how ideas of race, empire, and extinction have shaped our world and left important legacies for thinking about just conservation and the future of our planet, preorder here.

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Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction a book by Sadiah Qureshi.
Anyone alive today is among a tiny fraction of the once living: over 90 percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. How did we come to think of ourselves as survivors in a world where species ...
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Always exciting to get cover proofs - this will be out next spring
Painting of a town featuring a central church next to smoking factory chimneys
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Thanks! We are looking forward to it :)
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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...
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🎺🎺It’s taken a while, but I finally got the go ahead today: my book The Word made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600-1720 will be out on Routledge early next year.🎺🎺
Excited to share it, excited to explore new things!
#EarlyModern
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