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@drannafielding.bsky.social
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Early modern history - food, domestic spaces, health, hospitality and socialising, landscape. Where history intersects heritage, creativity, and wellbeing

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🦊 Why not buy my book, Reynard the Fox, for Christmas – the perfect stocking filler! Marina Warner described it as "marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling.Reynar" To buy a signed and gift-wrapped book, order directly from me! DM to purchase or go to my Etsy shop here: etsy.com/uk/listing/1...
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Job hunting sucks!
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 05/11/2025
Our PhD studentship applications are open for 2026 entry and I'm keen to hear from outstanding candidates in history of early modern conflict and/or creative histories.
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Haddon Hall today
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Flax processing at Ordsall Hall - stage 1. Nice to see one of the legacies of @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social in action as they move a step closer to creating linen today
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Now my time with @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social is over, reflecting on our creative health work over the past year with Ordsall Hall in Salford and the potential of creative health and access to academic history research
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
When you find something you loved on Twitter and then serendipitously see it on Bluesky 😍
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Night night Manchester
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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...
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The arts: can creativity help mental health?
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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
📢NEW WILLS PROJECT POST!📢 In the post our project Co-Investigator Laura Sangha recounts what happened when she collaborated with musician Chris Hoban in order to explore the wills in our sample. sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #EarlyModern 🗃️
A photo montage showing Laura Sangha and Chris Hoban talking to people, looking at wills, visiting a museum. There are also images of people creating linocuts at a workshop, and of a will.
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Can you import your old twitter account? Oh please say you can!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/04/2025
Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors
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Rare wall paintings found in Cumbria show tastes of well-off Tudors
Artwork thought to date from reign of Elizabeth I reveals how those with disposable incomes decorated their homes Rare and fantastical 16th-century wall paintings which shine light on the interior design tastes of well-off Tudors have been revealed in a former hunting lodge. Historic England said the wall paintings at The Ashes in Inglewood Forest, Cumbria, were remarkable and warranted extra heritage protection. Continue reading...
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#letscreate at the @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Engaging Communities conference at The Lowry, Salford. A stones throw from Ordsall Hall. Community projects and creativity takes time to get right but change is coming.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
ICYMI: the many-headed monster has just launched a new mini-series on Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England. Over the next month we celebrating the relaunch of British Printed Image to 1700 by publishing guest posts on the theme. 1st post tomorrow (Thurs)!🗃️ manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
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A new life for ‘British Printed Images to 1700’
Laura Sangha This post introduces our new mini-series Visual Culture in early modern England. Guest posts in the mini-series will be published over the course of the next month – we will add links …
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Posset pots on Pottery Throwdown!
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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Delighted to share this funded PhD opportunity at York, in collaboration with the National Trust. Please share with your #18thC networks.
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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Lots of exciting abstracts flowing in for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference in June, but still some time to get yours in!
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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We're so excited to release the CFP for our upcoming conference on 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. We're able to cover reasonable travel expenses for speakers. More detail at the link below. Deadline for abstract submission: 3rd Feb 2025.
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Medlar pie for lunch. On of the perks of working with Ordsall Hall in Salford is the orchard goodies I get!
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Bringing my pen tub to work. A lot of them will be too young to know Pauline from League of Gentlemen so I’ll look extra odd 😂
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Enjoying this on a lazy Saturday
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Me: Early modern history 🗃️ Craft ✂️ Books 📚 Walks 🥾 Food and food history 🥧 Cats 🐈‍⬛ Brews ☕️
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It really is lovely here isn’t it - my faith in social media has been restored
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Anna @drannafielding.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hello! I'm an early modern historian working on the Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World project with Prof. Sasha Handley from Uni of Manchester. My PhD was in gentry commensality in the north west of England and I am now planning a post-doc on the Catholic idea of 'home' *waves*
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