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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 4d

Night night Manchester

Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 25d

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

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 29d

📢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 🗃️

A photo montage showing Laura Sangha and Chris Hoban talking to people, looking at wills, visiting a museum. There are also images of people creating linocuts at a workshop, and of a will.

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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · Sep 5

Actually, quickly checked this and no thank you 😱

Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · Sep 5

Can you import your old twitter account? Oh please say you can!

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Apr 4

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...

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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · Apr 3

#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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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · Mar 6

Oh wow, thank you Mary! I’ll come and have a look very soon. Love to all at Speke

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Feb 26

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...

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

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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · Feb 23

Posset pots on Pottery Throwdown!

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Feb 4

Delighted to share this funded PhD opportunity at York, in collaboration with the National Trust. Please share with your #18thC networks.

Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · Feb 4

📣 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...

First page of the advert for the funded PhD at York, with the National Trust. Follow the link in the post for full info about the funding.

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · Jan 14

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!

Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social · Dec 10

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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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · Dec 10

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.

Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · Dec 10

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!

Seventeenth-century painting of landscape with figures in foreground. Text reads Call for Papers: Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World. 9-10 June 2025. John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester.

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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · Nov 28

Medlar pie for lunch. On of the perks of working with Ordsall Hall in Salford is the orchard goodies I get!

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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · Nov 25

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 😂

Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · Nov 23

Enjoying this on a lazy Saturday

Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · Nov 22

Me:
Early modern history 🗃️
Craft ✂️
Books 📚
Walks 🥾
Food and food history 🥧
Cats 🐈‍⬛
Brews ☕️

Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · Nov 22

It really is lovely here isn’t it - my faith in social media has been restored

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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · Nov 21

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*

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