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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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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?

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · Sep 2

The second part of our blog series with Visiting Scholar Ifeoma Akobi is now available here. Ifeoma explores the connections between the work of the project on sleeping well in the past and her own work on sustained wellbeing. sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Sleep and Self-care

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · Aug 4

We're really happy to feature a mini blog series from Ifeoma Akobi who joined us as a visiting scholar in 2024. In this first blog, Ifeoma introduces us to her own work and the places, people and plants she encountered during her time with us.

#earlymodern

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Sleep Botanics: Past and Present

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

We've had a fantastic couple of days at our project conference with engaging presentations and insightful keynotes from Sara Miglietti and Marcy Norton. Thanks to all our presenters and attendees and to the John Rylands Research Institute and Library for hosting us.

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 30

FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe...

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Select tickets – MMoR Conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World – The Council Room, King's College London

After four full years, the initial funded stage of Medicine and the Making of Race comes to a close in September 2025. To mark ...

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Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · Apr 29

And secondly, Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (UPenn) - 'Feeding, Eating, and Transforming Bodies: Interspecies Relationships and Subject Formation in the Early Modern Atlantic World'

See the full programme and join the waitlist for spare tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and... 2/2

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)

University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

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Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · Apr 29

We have two very exciting keynote papers for the upcoming and (now sold out!!) @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social conference 'Bodies & Environments in the Early Modern World'

Firstly, Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute) - 'What was "environment" in the early modern period?'

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · Apr 23

Last two tickets remaining for our conference! 😀 Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World, 9th-10th June 2025 at JRRIL, Manchester. More info and booking: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)

University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · Apr 15

Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)

University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

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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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Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · Apr 15

Registration is now open for @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social's conference 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World', 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Check out our AMAZING programme and register for free here: shorturl.at/SFrEK. Limited spaces available!

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)

University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · Apr 15

Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...

Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World (non-speakers)

University of Manchester 9th-10th June 2025.

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American Society for Environmental History @aseh.bsky.social · Apr 9

Did you know ASEH is starting an open-access online journal? Germinate: Environmental History Review is accepting content now! Learn more here: aseh.org/Germinate-En...

American Society for Environmental History - Germinate: Environmental History Review

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · Apr 9

Our very own @sashahandley.bsky.social and Abi Greenall are talking about their work on soporific recipes in Dublin tomorrow at 4pm!

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · Apr 9

#earlymodern Dublin people; this looks like a really great talk tomorrow UCD Humanities Institute at 4pm

Poster advertising a talk by Abigail Greenall and Sasha Handley (u of Manchester) titled “Soporific recipes and early modern ecological thinking”, April 10, 2025, UCD Humanities Institute seminar room at 4pm. Poster has a photo of a manuscript recipe book

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Feb 24

📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢

Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images.

🗃️ #Skystorians

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Screenshot of the front page of British Printed Images to 1700. Printed images border the screen on both sides, in the centre is the website title and various links: About, Search, Resources, Research.

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · Mar 12

Can anyone think of any instances when a mother might be deemed 'unnatural' in the period c.1700-1900?

I've got the more obvious things like infanticide, but I'm looking to branch out into other subversive female behaviours.

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Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social · Mar 12

Don’t forget our CfP for our long 18thc @bsecs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference in Bath 30-31st July on the theme of facades! Closes on 21st March. We can’t wait to welcome you to Bath Spa and the city! #skystorians #18c #19c #17c Please share with anyone interested!

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · Mar 3

We're so excited to have some films about our work with Ordsall Hall in Salford to share with you. This first one explains how we worked with their team to transform our academic research about early modern sleep into practical activities for their visitors.

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Sleeping Well Intro film

YouTube video by Gavin Repton

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · Mar 3

We're so excited to have some films about our work with Ordsall Hall in Salford to share with you. This first one explains how we worked with their team to transform our academic research about early modern sleep into practical activities for their visitors.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4wv...

Sleeping Well Intro film

YouTube video by Gavin Repton

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Mar 2

Coming up in March, we look forward to hosting this year's 'History and Archives in Practice' day conference, on Weds 5th, with partners @ihr.bsky.social and The National Archives bit.ly/3XlcLbW

#HAP25's theme is ‘Working with Memory', with contributions from historians and archivists #Skystorians

Slide for the 2025 'History and Archives in Practice' day conference on 5 March with the theme of 'Working with Memory: History, Storytelling and Practices of Remembrance', hashtag #HAP25

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Jan 27

We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University

Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to [email protected] by the 21 March 2025

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#BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · Feb 24

📢Academic Job Klaxon📢

Our Inventing Futures team is growing - we’re looking for three early career researchers in Early Modern European History, French, and Italian Studies.

Could you be one of our new colleagues?

Learn more and apply here: tinyurl.com/4w9ssbxe

Inventing Futures Job Opportunities - Durham University

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · Feb 2

Last chance to submit an abstract for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference, CFP closes tomorrow!

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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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jan 23

We are delighted to announce our #CfP for 'Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800'! Please email your abstracts (300 words) and bios to @zarakesterton.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social, by 14 March 🪴

A 17th century Dutch painting of pink roses, carnations, cornflowers, and narcissus. The text reads: Call for Papers. Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800. University of Cambridge, 8–9 July 2025.

Text reads: This interdisciplinary conference will examine botanical knowledge exchange among early modern individuals at the periphery of professional science. We will focus on women, domestic workers, artisans, merchants, and enslaved and indigenous naturalists who used plant knowledge in their everyday life, yet did not (or could not) derive a living primarily from botany.

Over the course of this conference, and a subsequent publication, we intend to address the following questions:
What kinds of people and spaces fostered botanical knowledge outside of traditional institutions of learning?
What role did embodied experience play in the acquisition of botanical knowledge?
What did the social networks of these practitioners look like, and how did this overlap with or differ from the networks of professional scientists?
How was the knowledge of these non-professional practitioners valued (or devalued) by their contemporaries?

Reflecting the creative nature of our subject matter, we welcome applications for papers in formats other than traditional presentations. Furthermore, the conference will include a practical workshop with the artist and natural dye expert Nabil Ali. We hope that our creative workshop will feed into participants’ practice and inform their contributions to our proposed publication.

This conference will be held in person from 8–9 July at the University of Cambridge. Lunch and refreshments will be included. We aim to offer grants of £150 to contribute towards the cost of travel and accommodation for speakers coming from outside of Cambridge and the surrounding area. Please let us know in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel grant.

Please send an abstract of max. 300 words and a short biography to the conference organisers, Lucy Havard (lh655@cam.ac.uk) and Zara Kesterton (zlk21@cam.ac.uk) by Friday 14 March 2025.

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