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Holly Fletcher

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Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments. NEW Wellcome project 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World: Matter in Multispecies Medicine', UCL. https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about

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Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · Apr 15

Really excited to share this amazing news and very much looking forward to starting the project @uclhistory.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Read more about it on the @bemccollective.bsky.social blog and watch this space!!

Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · Apr 15

Congratulations to @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social who has received a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for 'The Fats of Life, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine', which she will take up at UCL in autumn 2025. Read more about this fascinating project here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Dr Holly Fletcher Receives Wellcome Trust Early Career Award

Holly Fletcher, who is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the ‘Sleeping Well’ Project at the University of Manchester, has been awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for ...

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 19h

An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history!

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 2d

It’s real!!
I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Double page spread with a photo of diorama

Chapter 3 Cursed treasures on left, lion on right

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Jill Burke @jillburke.bsky.social · 8d

Oak gall wasps are my current obsession - galls are a key ingredient in European writing inks before industrialisation.
Countless ideas on paper start with the relationship between an oak tree and a wasp.

Marcello Malpighi observed galls to understand and illustrate their growth in the 1670s

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 9d

Call for applications! 📣

The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 15d

And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 19d

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

#EarlyModern 🗃️

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Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks Dolly!! Yes, super exciting!

Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · Sep 4

Honoured to have won the @eseh.bsky.social St Andrews Prize for my article 'Making Beds in Early Modern England'! You can read more about the prize below and check out the article here: academic.oup.com/histres/arti...

#ESEH2025 @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social

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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · Sep 4

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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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · Aug 13

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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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · Aug 26

A highlight of #ESEH2025: the Polar Bear Swim! Was so great to meet so many other swimmers - by FAR the biggest conference swim to date!

A group of people stand in front of a treelined river for a photograph

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · Aug 7

Delighted that the print copies of my first book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London', just published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, have arrived! 📚📚📚

A photo of the author holding up a copy of her book, which has a red cover.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Aug 6

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history?

We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop.

Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details!

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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025

History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨 📚 New book coming this August. Available for pre-order now!
This just went straight to the top of my to-read list:

"Bernard Palissy and the Arts of the Earth" — François Quiviger

#EarlyModern #HistSci #ArtHistory 🗃️
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Bernard Palissy and the Arts of the Earth

A life of the sixteenth-century potter and scientist, with special attention to his natural philosophy. Bernard Palissy, a French Renaissance artisan philosopher, saw intelligence and consciousness ...

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · Jul 24

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

The ‘Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800’ seminar at the Institute for Historical Research would like to appoint a doctoral student as a stipendiary postgraduate seminar convenor for 2025/26. You would be an active member of our lively, friendly seminar. Your main responsibilities would be to contribute to our social media presence, encourage other postgrads to attend the seminar, and occasionally assist with minor administrative tasks to help the seminar run smoothly. The expectation would be that you would come to the seminar as often as possible.

We normally host nine seminar talks over the course of the academic year. In 2024/25, we hosted talks by Rachel Winchcombe (Manchester), Fara Dabhoiwala (Princeton), Will Tullet (York), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Nikki Clarke (Birkbeck), and Juliet Atkinson (Leeds).

The Institute will provide you with a stipend of £300 (£100/term) and will cover the cost of your meals if you attend post-seminar dinners.

The current convenors are Holly Fletcher (UCL), Laura Gowing (KCL), Kate Hodgkin (East London), Eva Johanna Holmberg (Queen Mary), Tiéphaine Thomason (Cambridge), Emily Vine (Exeter), Brodie Waddell (Birkbeck) and Roisin Watson (Open University).

To apply, please send a cover letter (max one page) indicating why this opportunity is of interest and a CV (1-2 pages) to b.waddell@bbk.ac.uk by September 1st.

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · Jul 17

Objects of Poverty edited by @joeharleyhistory.bsky.social & Vicky Holmes, is out in just over a month. It includes a chapter by me about cobbled together whistles. The cover features one of my whistles plus a bonkers barometer.

Pre-order your copy!
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Amelia Hutchinson @ameliahutchinson.bsky.social · Jul 4

I’m so excited to share that I will be working as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de project ‘Mining frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary
(16th-18th century)’ at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (PI @tinasmussen.bsky.social). I can’t wait to join the team and get started!

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · Jul 6

A bunch of historians and friends refreshing themselves after reenacting the procession from Southwark to Wandsworth for the mock election of the Mayor of Garratt. Thanks to @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social & @annacusack.bsky.social for the dose of walking (and drinking) history!

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · Jun 25

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

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Dr George Iordachescu 🏳️‍🌈 🟥 @georgeiorda.bsky.social · Jun 22

What a life enriching opportunity to work with the Multispecies Mutualisms project team. Please consider applying or sharing the word!

Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Jun 20

🚨Job Alert 🚨 🐕‍🦺 🐄🐎🐦‍⬛
Do you have project management skills & an interest in human-animal relations? We are recruiting a project manager role (5 years) for our new project (info in the 🧵) @sheffielduni.bsky.social
📆 deadline 30 June www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNO134/p...

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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · Jun 22

Bit later than some, but happy to have finally finished my marking and have had a little holiday up in Scotland.
If anyone knows of any teaching opportunities next academic year. Or if anyone needs a freelancer to do some archival work, please get in touch.

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Amelia Hutchinson @ameliahutchinson.bsky.social · Jun 20

We are delighted to share the programme for our 'Art Lovers in the World' Conference, taking place at the University of Cambridge, 28th-29th Jul 2025, funded by the DAAD Hub, the Trevelyan Fund and the GHS. Tickets are available at artloversconference.eventbrite.co.uk. We look forward to seeing you!

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Huygens Instituut @huygensknaw.bsky.social · Jun 23

📣Tomorrow! Join us for "Brining, Pickling, and Smoking". @preservare.bsky.social PhD candidates @thijselfrink.bsky.social and Tijmen Moesker introduce their case studies & share preliminary findings.
🕟 15:30 AMS | 9:30 NY | 🌐 Online
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@mariekehendriksen.bsky.social
@nybg.bsky.social

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Jun 11

This bagpipe playing bear is just irresistible

(Monogrammist CG, German, c. 1534, Rijksmuseum)

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Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · May 12

Thank you so much!!! Very glad to be sticking around :)