A difficult article to write - based on my current AHRC research project:
“No more silly stuff?” Domestic Abuse, Poverty, and Family Life workingclassmemoirs.com/2024/05/08/no-…

Rather astonishingly, the Public Country House conference, generously funded by The British Academy and in partnership with National Trust has sold out in person & online. Additional online tickets are available from this afternoon - follow the link below: vam.ac.uk/event/mdwMqKPN…

Out now: 'Prayer for Family and Friends: The Body and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain'
The article with Dr Emily Vine from Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 has officially been published in The Historical Journal. If you don't have access, DM me for a code (I have 10 giveaways!).

So this happened recently! 😀
#TopCitedArticle ⬇️
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

Wonderful work going on with our heritage partner Ordsall Hall and with Salford schools around the importance of sleep for health 💤🛌

FASCINATING ONLINE talk!
At our next John Rylands Research Institute and Library Lunchtime Seminar tomorrow, our very own Institute for Cultural Practices @uomhistdept Luca Scholz & John Rylands Research Institute and Library amazing Donna Sherman curator Donna Sherman will talk about past maps, weather & climate!!

Sign up here ow.ly/klnl50RgrMl
School of Arts, Languages and Culture

Sharing my research on Mughal cookbooks at the British Library Food Season on 25 may. There will be Mughal recipes’ inspired dishes to taste- prepared by the chef of an Indian Michelin star restaurant BiBi! Tickets in the link. thebritishlibrary.seetickets.com/event/reimagin…

Congrats to the indefatigable Stefan Hanß, whose article, 'The Material Creativity of Affective Artifacts in the Dutch Colonial World: Imaging and Imagining Early Modern Feathers' has just been published in Current Anthropology - it's a terrific read!
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Had an insightful
afternoon with the Scott Trust / Guardian Legacies of Enslavement team and cultural colleagues from across the city. Now giving this important job opportunity to uplift and connect work in Manchester a push jobs.theguardian.com/job/8931759/pr…

What a joy to read Yasemin Tuğyan’s Boğaziçi Üniversitesi ÖTK generous review of my Routledge History, Heritage Studies & Archaeology Narrating the Dragoman’s Self in Ceride: Journal of Ego Document Studies: “an excellent read” & “great debut” reading for anybody interested in cultural history:
shorturl.at/hwzQ5

📣Out now on #firstview !

Clodagh Tait (Dr Clodagh Tait) (@HistoryatMIC) on 'Phantoms in and of the Archive: Mary Cudmore’s Encounters with a Ghost in Cork in 1688 and 1689'

#History #Belief #Supernatural #Religion 👻📜

🔓Read open access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Exciting webpage for Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms, ed. Natalya Din-Kariuki, Subha Mukherji, & Rowan Williams -- out this autumn, feat. my short essay on women in Elizabethan London talking about their experiences of transnational migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/crossin…

Very much want to work on this! Must finish all the stuff I’ve half-written first.

The effects of broken sleep - we already know some of the answers to the questions raised in this piece, but yet more reason to pay attention to your sleep habits theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

Can u bring both order and imagination to Manchester Museum digital collections work?

Everything you might ever want to know about early modern beds and bedding...

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

and finally, Anna Grasskamp's #ERC success means she is hiring an Associate Professor in History of Art  (258311) | University of Oslo (jobbnorge.no)
#academicjob
#ArtHistory
Anna Grasskamp, ECOART, hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/…