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Leah Astbury is a historian focusing on health, medicine, and gender during the period c. 1500-1750. She joined the University of Bristol as a Lecturer in Health History in August 2024. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the 'Sleeping Early Modern World' project at the University of Manchester under Professor Sasha Handley from 2018 to 2022. She has also held the position of Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and was the Molina Fellow in History of Medicine at the Huntington Library in San Marino, US in 2017/18. Astbury has been involved in various research fellowships, including at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and the Society for Renaissance Studies. Her book, 'Making Babies in Early Modern England,' is set to be published by Cambridge University Press in October 2025. She is interested in supervising students working on early modern social, cultural, gender, medical, and environmental history, with a current focus on animal history and intersectional histories of race, colonization, and gender in the early modern world.
University of Bristol • Bristol, ENG
Lecturer in Health History.
University of Manchester • Manchester, ENG
Worked on the 'Sleeping Early Modern World' project.
University of Cambridge • Cambridge, ENG
Worked in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Department of Physics research themes include Astrophysics, Materials and Devices, Particle Physics, and Quantum and Soft Matter.