
Rachel Winchcombe
@rachelwinchers
Historian of food, emotion, and environment in colonial America. Lecturer in Early Modern History @UoMhistdept.
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10-01-2012 18:46:35
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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

Some really innovative research from @UoMhistdept Dr Abi Greenall on the use of 3D modeling in historical research!



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

Students at Manchester University are setting up a Gaza encampment after worldwide calls for solidarity with Palestine | via PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸




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…

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…

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…

#Newpublication - members of the collective might be interesting in this forthcoming and exciting work, edited by Dr Alex Burchmore


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…

Check out the Bodies, Emotions, and Material Culture Collective blog for this fascinating discussion of shame, embodiment, medicine and the social. Dr Holly Fletcher Luna Dolezal 👇🏻

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


Happening today at 4pm - Fat Bodies in Early Modern Material and Visual Culture @UoMhistdept Manchester English

Huge congratulations Dr Holly Fletcher - that’s fantastic news and the project sounds amazing!

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…