Sasha Handley

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Sasha Handley
OccupationProfessor of early modern history, University of Manchester
Academic background
Alma mater Warwick University

Sasha Handley is a British historian, specializing in the early modern social and cultural history of the British Isles. She is best known for her research on history of British sleeping habits, and her book, Sleep in Early Modern England, was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize in 2017.

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Education and career

Handley completed her graduate education - a Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. - in history, from Warwick University. [1] She is currently a professor of early modern history at the University of Manchester, where she teaches early modern British, European, and global history. [2] She has received fellowships from the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Institute of Historical Research. [2] She is a member of the Royal Historical Society, and chairs a collaborative seminar in early modern history with historians across Great Britain. [1]

Research and publications

Handley's research studies early modern social and cultural history in the British Isles, with a particular focus on healthcare and sleep, supernatural beliefs, emotions, and material culture. [2] In 2016, Handley published Sleep in Early Modern England (Yale University Press), a book documenting social practices and medical research into sleep in early modern England. [3] The book was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize in 2017, with the judges describing it as a "... book of sheer originality and novelty" that tackled a subject previously neglected in research. [4] It was also shortlisted for the Longman-History Today Book Prize in 2017. [5] In 2018, the book won the inaugural Social History Prize awarded by the Social History Society. [6] Other research by Handley has addressed histories of the supernatural in Europe and England. [7]

Handley has also collaborated with the National Trust to engage the public with research on the history of sleep, including guiding tours at Ham House, a 17th-century historical preserved home, to teach visitors about historical sleep habits and practices, and is collaborating on a similar project at Little Moreton Hall. [1] [8] [9] As a visiting fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Handley has also worked on the cataloging of early modern objects such as bedsheets. [10] Handley has also contributed to programming on BBC Radio 4, concerning sheets and sleeping on a podcast titled 'The History of Stuff' and on the history of sleep, for a podcast hosted by Sarah Dunant, titled, 'Sleep: A Third of Human History'. [11] [12]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Prof Sasha Handley | The University of Manchester". www.research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  3. ↑ "Sleep in Early Modern England". Yale University Press. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  4. ↑ "Sleep in Early Modern England - The 2017 Wolfson History Prize Shortlist". The Wolfson History Prize. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  5. ↑ "Longman-History Today Book Prize 2017: The Shortlist | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  6. ↑ "Book Prize Winners 2018". The Social History Society. 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  7. ↑ "Prof Sasha Handley - Publications | The University of Manchester". www.research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  8. ↑ "How we used to sleep - Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies - The University of Manchester". www.mems.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  9. ↑ "How We used to Sleep". National Trust. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  10. ↑ Handley, Sasha (2018). "Objects, Emotions and an Early Modern Bed-sheet". History Workshop Journal. 85 (1): 169–194. ISSN   1477-4569.
  11. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - The Origin of Stuff, Bed". BBC. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  12. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - When Greeks Flew Kites, Sleep: A Third of Human History". BBC. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
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