Sleep in Early Modern England
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 50389648
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- ISBN
- 9780300220391
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The research and writing up of this project took c.8 years, was supported by an AHRC Early Career Fellowship and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship, and resulted in a 110,000 word monograph. It offers the first comprehensive analysis of sleep's history in any period has defined a new field of historical enquiry. The book draws on an extensive body of material artefacts, inventories, life-writings, medical works, and philosophical treatises. It won the 2018 Social History Society Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize and the Longman-History Today Book Prize in 2017.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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