Thomas Dixon is Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. His new research – part of the Living With Feeling project – explores the history, philosophy, and experience of anger. In this, … Continue reading
The Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London invites applications from outstanding post-graduate students wishing to pursue doctoral research into aspects of the histories of emotions and health. The deadline for applications is 31 … Continue reading
Thomas Dixon is Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. His new research – part of the Living With Feeling project – explores the history, philosophy, and experience of anger. In this, … Continue reading
It’s been a busy year on the history of emotions blog, and readers might have struggled (as I have), to keep up with every post. So here’s a round-up of 2016 so far – about 30 new blog posts – hopefully … Continue reading
Thomas Dixon is Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. His new research – part of the Living With Feeling project – explores the history, philosophy, and experience of anger. In this, … Continue reading
Thomas Dixon is Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London. His books include From Passions to Emotions (2003) and Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears (2015). Following on from a post by … Continue reading
On 10 May 2016, the British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS) hosted and filmed four short talks by Victorianists. All four talks are now available to watch on YouTube (and below) and all of them hold potential interest for historians of … Continue reading
This post by Professor Sneja Gunew is a slightly modified version of a guest editorial first published in a special issue of the journal Samyukta: A Journal of Gender and Culture brought out from Kerala, India, in January 2016. It is republished here … Continue reading
Dr Julie V. Gottlieb is Reader in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, and the author of ‘Guilty Women’, Foreign Policy, and Appeasement in Inter-War Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). In this post, originally published on the University of Sheffield’s ‘History … Continue reading
A Conversation With Charles Foster Charles Foster’s Being a Beast (Profile, 2016) is an extraordinary book about the author’s life-long fascination with the minds of animals and his attempts to see the world through their eyes – to feel their sensations, … Continue reading