Sasha Handley
@sashahandley.bsky.social
Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
I'm so excited to read, 'The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance' by @stefanhanss.bsky.social , which has just been published in The American Historical Review. It's groundbreaking work! academic.oup.com/ahr/advance-...
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
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November 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I'm so excited to read, 'The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance' by @stefanhanss.bsky.social , which has just been published in The American Historical Review. It's groundbreaking work! academic.oup.com/ahr/advance-...
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The Whitworth's 'Albrecht Dürer's Material World' exhibition (2023-24) inspires new musical composition by University of Manchester composer Camden Reeves:
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Melancholia & the Angel: How The Whitworth's exhibition, Albrecht Dürer's Material World, inspired a new musical composition
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September 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The Whitworth's 'Albrecht Dürer's Material World' exhibition (2023-24) inspires new musical composition by University of Manchester composer Camden Reeves:
sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...
sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...
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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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September 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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):
sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...
sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...
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@drhollyfletcher.bsky.social wins the ESEH St Andrews Prize for Environmental History! Read all about it here!
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Dr Holly Fletcher wins ESEH article prize for environmental history
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September 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
@drhollyfletcher.bsky.social wins the ESEH St Andrews Prize for Environmental History! Read all about it here!
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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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September 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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
sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
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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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August 13, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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...
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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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July 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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
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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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June 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
#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...
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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July 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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!
www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
www.history.org.uk/higher-ed/re...
Congratulations to @joshuarushton8.bsky.social on the award of your Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Amazing news!
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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May 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Congratulations to @joshuarushton8.bsky.social on the award of your Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. Amazing news!
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!
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 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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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Fully-funded PhD scholarship opportunity on project on ‘The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750)’ at the University of Manchester. Supervised by me and my wonderful colleague Tabitha Tuckett in collaboration with Chetham’s Library. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[HUMS Bicentenary PhD] The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750): A data-driven approach to social justice in library catalogues of small and medium heritage collections at The Universit...
PhD Project - [HUMS Bicentenary PhD] The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750): A data-driven approach to social justice in library catalogues of small and medium heritage collections at...
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December 11, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Fully-funded PhD scholarship opportunity on project on ‘The hidden voices of early printed books (c. 1450-1750)’ at the University of Manchester. Supervised by me and my wonderful colleague Tabitha Tuckett in collaboration with Chetham’s Library. Please share! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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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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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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December 12, 2024 at 11:25 AM
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...
📜💍👞👗🧀🪑🐮🗡️📚🫖💰🗃️
If you would like to join the hunt click here www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
📜💍👞👗🧀🪑🐮🗡️📚🫖💰🗃️
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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.
#skystorians
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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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December 8, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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.
#skystorians
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#skystorians
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Always exciting to get cover proofs - this will be out next spring
November 10, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Always exciting to get cover proofs - this will be out next spring
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...
December 10, 2024 at 10:46 AM
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
Excited to share it, excited to explore new things!
#EarlyModern
November 13, 2024 at 5:04 PM
🎺🎺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
Excited to share it, excited to explore new things!
#EarlyModern
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Our own @sashahandley.bsky.social wrote about the relationship between flax and hemp and sleep over on our blog!
Materials of Sleep: Flax and Hemp
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December 9, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Our own @sashahandley.bsky.social wrote about the relationship between flax and hemp and sleep over on our blog!