Review of the Year 2014
For anyone who didn’t keep up with all our posts on the Queen Mary History of Emotions Blog this year, Thomas Dixon has made a selection of highlights from 2014 – a year of friendship and smiles, as well as … Continue reading
Category Archives: Research reports
The religious roots of cancerphobia
Fanny H. Brotons is a PhD candidate at the Institute of History of the Spanish National Research Council. Her dissertation focuses on the experience of Spanish and British cancer sufferers in the second half of the nineteenth century. In this … Continue reading
The Smile Revolution
Colin Jones is Professor of History at Queen Mary University of London, where he is one of the founding members of the Centre for the History of the Emotions. This post, which first appeared on the Voltaire Foundation blog, marks … Continue reading
The Scientist and the Stand-Up
Dr Tiffany Watt-Smith is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions and the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London. She is one of the BBC Radio 3 and AHRC … Continue reading
Watery Offerings: Women and Water in the Middle Ages
Hetta Howes is writing a PhD at Queen Mary, University of London on the subject of water and religious imagery in medieval devotional texts by and for women. She was one of the contributors to the ‘Vessels of Tears’ event on … Continue reading
The ‘famous amorous Knight’: Sir John Dineley
Dr Sally Holloway completed her AHRC-funded PhD on romantic love in eighteenth-century England at Royal Holloway in 2013. She is currently a Historical Researcher at Kensington Palace, and Affiliated Research Scholar at the Centre for the History of the Emotions. … Continue reading
“But I do care about you….”, the immune system told the brain
This is a guest post by Dr Fulvio D’Acquisto and Samuel Brod, from the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry “The mind most effectually works upon the body, producing … Continue reading
Confessions of a Boy Murderer
Eleanor Betts is a PhD candidate at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, researching the history of children who killed in Victorian Britain. In 1892 a sixteen-year-old boy named John Wise joined his friends on an … Continue reading
Inside Broadmoor
Jade Shepherd has recently completed her PhD on male patients in Victorian Broadmoor at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, and is one of the interviewees in a new Channel 5 series, ‘Inside Broadmoor’. Here she … Continue reading
Excrementitious humours: Crying and not crying in Titus Andronicus
Dr Thomas Dixon is the Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. Here he writes about the representations of tears and weeping in Shakespeare’s first tragedy. I have been researching the … Continue reading