Such a privilege to see my NEW ARTICLE on Amazonian biocreativity & 17th-c featherworking in colonial Dutch Brazil published ahead of print in CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY:

👉🏾journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Wenner-Gren Foundation SAPIENS

Are you looking to publish on interactions in the past between humans and other lifeforms (animals, plants, fungi, etc.)? We’ve launched a brand new book series at LUP on the history of biodiversity that might be right for you: Holocene Histories.
lup.nl/series/holocen…

📣Out now on #firstview !

Karen Harvey (Professor Karen Harvey) (@History_Bham) and Emily Vine (@EmilyMayVine) (@exeterclio) on 'Prayer for Family and Friends: The Body and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain'

#Writing #Devotion #Material 🙏🦵🧠

🔓Read OA: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📢We have just re-advertised our PhD studentship on Global Commodities in #EarlyModern wills📢

The successful student has lots of scope to shape it: this post outlines some themes they might explore. Please share!

#History #PhDChat #twitterstorians

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…

Fully-funded three-year PhD fellowship in medieval environmental history!
All topics welcome. We particularly invite candidates with an interest in histories of water, animals, saints, or environmental storytelling. Deadline 18 April. #envhist
jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

This is the Radclyffe Bed, the only piece of original furniture from the Hall! It was made as a wedding gift ca. 1560.

The amount of detail and ornate carvings are still impressive today!

We are back with a new series of blogs! First up is Ana Struillou's 'Connecting slavery and medicine across the Mediterranean: Isabel de la Cruz and berberisco healers in seventeenth-century Madrid', now live on our website here rb.gy/cv4jzk King's History Ana Struillou

Your periodic reminder that there is an early modern pub night once a month for anyone who may be interested. We meet at a (vaguely) historic pub, normally in the central London area, but our April meet will be further afield at The Spaniards Inn, Hampstead! Drop me a DM to join.

Interested in the sleep of the early modern poor and its environmental contexts? If so, take a look at this fabulous piece by our own Dr Holly Fletcher hot off the press & available OA thanks to Wellcome
academic.oup.com/histres/advanc…
History Department School of Arts, Languages and Culture Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World Ordsall Hall

📢LANGUAGE COURSE GRANTS📢

The GHS and DAAD News are pleased to offer grants for language courses in Germany of up to €850 for postgraduate students

📅 Due: 14 April 2024
📎 Applications to: [email protected]
🖥️ More information at: germanhistorysociety.org/language-cours…

Primrose popping up everywhere Ordsall Hall in March. Closely related to cowslips, both were used in waters, conserves, and syrups to strengthen the stomach, aid digestion, and ‘gently provoke sleep’ according to Pechey’s Compleat Herbal of 1694. Time to get preserving them!

What a fantastic interview with our @uomhistdept very own & fabulous Dr Alka Raman, in conversation w/ Boston College Prasannan Parthasarathi, Patrick Wallis & myself
sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

🍃CfP: Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds - please share! Keynote speaker 👉🏾 USC EMSI’s Prof Peter Mancall. 24-25 June; PG students especially encouraged to submit!
📝katiebankmusic.com/post/cfp-natur…

We are delighted to announce our third and final call for papers of the academic year, 'Cultures and Practices of Knowledge'. We look forward to submissions (deadline 9/04) from those looking to present both in-person or online! #cfp #materialculture #earlymodern

Funded PhD opportunity with the wonderful Suzanna Ivanic 🇺🇦 I stand with Ukraine AND ME!!! Are you interested in craft, making, knowledge and belief? Do you know someone who could be? #earlymodern #twitterstorians please spread the word.... komldsp.org.uk/projects/craft…

Professor Ulinka Rublack will be giving the Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2024 Department of History, Central European University and Medieval Studies CEU on the subject of Dürer’s Dress: Subject and Object in the Renaissance, on March 13, 14, 18. Online attendance possible! Full details here: medievalstudies.ceu.edu/article/2024-0…