A guest post by Richard Ashcroft, Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Law at Queen Mary University of London, based on his recent Work in Progress Seminar. These notes were the basis of my work in progress to the … Continue reading
Evelien Lemmens is a PhD candidate on the ‘Living with Feeling’ project, starting at Queen Mary University of London in September 2016. Her research will focus on the relationship between diet, digestion and emotional health in Britain and the Netherlands … Continue reading
The 4 July 2016 saw the first main event of the ‘Living with Feeling’ grant, a workshop titled ‘What is Emotional Health?‘. The workshop brought together core project team members with named collaborators on the grant and the PhD students … 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
This is a guest post by Markus Wagner and Sofia Vasilopoulou. Markus is an associate professor in quantitative methods at the University of Vienna. Sofia is a lecturer in politics at the University of York. It is striking how prominent emotions were in popular reactions … Continue reading
Here’s the first episode of our new Living with Feeling podcast – an interview with my favourite living writer, Geoff Dyer, about the theme of peak experiences in his writing. Dyer is the author of two novels and several non-fiction … Continue reading
As Ross MacFarlane wrote in a previous blog post, by looking closely at collections of amulets and charms that formerly belonged to Londoners, we can view different emotions imbued in and even inscribed upon these objects. MacFarlane was talking about … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Erin Lafford and the fourth, and final, in this week’s ‘Romantic Voices’ series. Erin is a final-year DPhil student (AHRC funded) at the University of Oxford, writing a thesis on ‘Forms of Health in John Clare’s Poetics’. Her … Continue reading
This is a guest post by Emelia Quinn and the third in this week’s ‘Romantic Voices’ series. Emelia is a Wolfson Foundation DPhil student in the English Faculty at the University of Oxford. Her thesis aims to both establish a ‘vegan’ mode of … Continue reading