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Rachel Winchcombe

@rachelwinchers

Historian of food, emotion, and environment in colonial America. Lecturer in Early Modern History @UoMhistdept.

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We've been doing some exciting and seasonal remaking with our friends Ordsall Hall! Find out how to candy fruits, pickle vegetables and make quince paste to go with that Christmas cheese board - it might help you sleep too! @UoMhistdept Stefan Hanß

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Just under a week left to apply for our permanent lectureship in early modern history (deadline 12 Jan): jobs.ac.uk/job/DET180/lec…

Environmental History (@envhistjournal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congratulations to Hayley Negrin, who won the American Society for Environmental History's Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article in Environmental History. The article, "Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America" is free until July 1. Chicago Journals

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.REF 2029 have announced this morning that there will be no requirement for books, edited collections or scholarly editions to be available Open Access to be eligible for REF29. This follows responses to a recent REF consultation. Full statement here: bit.ly/46POdeD

.<a href="/ref2029/">REF 2029</a> have announced this morning that there will be no requirement for books, edited collections or scholarly editions to be available Open Access to be eligible for REF29.

This follows responses to a recent REF consultation. Full statement here: bit.ly/46POdeD
G. Derek Musgrove (@gdmusgrove) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The UMBC History Department seeks to hire a Historian of Vast Early America for a full-time tenure­ track position at either the Advanced Assistant or Associate Professor level. Deadline Sept 27. Full ad here: facultyjobs.umbc.edu/cwfac/en-us/jo…

Bodies, Emotions, and Material Culture Collective (@bemccollective) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We now have a twitter account for the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @UoMhistdept . Please retweet and follow if you are interested in histories of the body, emotions, material culture studies, and interdisciplinary research!

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Read below about a new exhibition University of Melbourne that forms part of the larger research project “Albrecht Dürer’s Material World” - bringing together researchers from Melbourne, Manchester and Heidelberg. ⁦Stefan Hanß⁩ ⁦Sasha Handley⁩ sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

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The ⁦Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World⁩ team has been doing some amazing work as part of their ⁦Wellcome⁩ project. You can read about their final public engagement event ⁦Ordsall Hall⁩ on our blog 👇🏻! ⁦Sasha Handley⁩ ⁦Dr Holly Fletcher⁩ sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

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Find out more about Dr Holly Fletcher wonderful new article for the Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World project on how bedding materials were understood to affect sleepers’ health in the early period, as well as the environmental implications of different bed fillings. 😴 💤 🛌 sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

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Congratulations to ⁦JRRI⁩ fellow Dr Kate Gibson⁩ whose book ‘Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England’ has won the Women’s History Network Book Prize. You can read more about the book and what the judges said about it on our blog 👇🏻 sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

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From the inimitable NZD + ⁦Stefan Hanß⁩ this posthumously published article in The Historical Journal is a testament to Natalie’s courage, the creativity of the historian’s critical independent mind, and its power to contest totalitarian tendencies. sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

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Don't forget that this year's Affective Artefacts seminar series kicks off on Wednesday (16th Oct) with what promises to be a fascinating discussion of fat bodies in early modern material and visual culture with Dr Holly Fletcher + Noelle Duckmann Gallgher. @UoMhistdept Manchester English

Don't forget that this year's Affective Artefacts seminar series kicks off on Wednesday (16th Oct) with what promises to be a fascinating discussion of fat bodies in early modern material and visual culture with <a href="/hrfletcher_/">Dr Holly Fletcher</a> + Noelle Duckmann Gallgher. @UoMhistdept <a href="/ECW_UoM/">Manchester English</a>
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Very pleased to have been awarded a BA mid-career fellowship to write up my second book on colonial foodways. Thanks The British Academy - I can't wait to get cracking in January! thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/mid-ca…