Dr Thomas Dixon is the presenter of ‘Five Hundred Years of Friendship‘ on BBC Radio 4 and the Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. In this blog post he reflects on … Continue reading
Dr Thomas Dixon is the presenter of ‘Five Hundred Years of Friendship‘ on BBC Radio 4 and the Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. In this blog post he reflects … Continue reading
Professor Mark Peel is Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Law at the University of Leicester. He has previously held chairs of history at both Liverpool and Monash Universities. Professor Peel contributed to Episode 12 of ‘Five Hundred Years of … Continue reading
Dr James Ellison is Reader in International History at Queen Mary University of London. In this post for the History of Emotions Blog he explores international friendship and the history of Anglo-American relations – from eighteenth-century hostility, via the Churchillian … Continue reading
Deborah Chambers is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. Her most recent book is, Social Media and Personal Relationships: Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). In this post for the History of Emotions Blog she analyses the aspirations … Continue reading
Barbara Taylor is Professor of Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London. She is an expert on Mary Wollstonecraft and a historian of both feminism and psychoanalysis. She is a contributor to Episode 5 and Episode 14 of ‘Five Hundred … Continue reading
Jenna Bailey is a writer and historian whose research at the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex led to her discovery of the surviving papers of the Co-operative Correspondence Club, which is featured in Episode 13 of ‘Five Hundred … Continue reading
Michael Kay is a historian of science and technology at the University of Leeds, where he is completing his PhD thesis on the early social history of the telephone in Britain, as part of a collaborative project between the University and … Continue reading
Sue Morgan is Professor of Women’s and Gender History at the University of Chichester, and an expert on the histories of religion and sexuality. In this post for the History of Emotions blog, in connection with Episode 11 of ‘Five … Continue reading
Dr Santanu Das is Reader in English Literature at King’s College London, and the author of Touch and Intimacy in First World War Literature. In this blog post he explores the unique kind of male bonding that occurred in the trenches, … Continue reading