Angharad Eyre is currently working on a PhD thesis on the impact of the female missionary on religious women and their writing through the nineteenth century. She was one of the speakers at the one-day conference on Constance Maynard hosted by … Continue reading
Here’s a video of a seminar I attended in Exeter University a couple of months ago, organised by Stoic expert Christopher Gill, on Stoicism and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). Thanks for organising it Chris, it was very enjoyable:
Dr Thomas Dixon is Director of the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. Here he reflects on the meanings of love, as discussed at a recent one-day conference inspired by the writings of Constance Maynard, and hosted … Continue reading
I have recently returned from a journey deep into the warm, pulsating heart of the happiness movement. Last Thursday I took part in a conference on Positive Psychology at Wellington College (the pioneer of well-being classes), and then I went … Continue reading
Jane Mackelworth is a PhD student at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. Her research examines the meaning of home, family, love and belonging for women living in romantic relationships together in the first half of the … Continue reading
Hazel Croft is a PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, where she is supervised by Professor Joanna Bourke. Here Hazel offers her reflections on the recent SSHM conference at Queen Mary, complementing the posts by William Reddy and Jane … Continue reading
Professor William M. Reddy was one of the keynote speakers at the recent SSHM conference on “Emotions, Health and Wellbeing” at Queen Mary. He has very kindly agreed to post on the History of Emotions blog the following paragraphs, which … Continue reading
Sarah Chaney is a PhD student at the UCL Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines and co-organiser of the Damaging the Body seminar series. This post, about food, physical restraint, and Victorian psychiatric treatment, arises from one element of her PhD … Continue reading
Louise Øhrstrøm Poulsen is a PhD student at the University of East Anglia. Her thesis is a study of metaphor and emotion in Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love. Why do emotions matter in historical research? How does our understanding … Continue reading
Colin Jones is Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the steering group of the Centre for the History of the Emotions. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and is currently President … Continue reading