Dr Claire Langhamer is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Sussex. Her research and publications focus on aspects of everyday life in the 20th century, and in particular on the history of love. Her most recent book is The English … Continue reading
Pain is a sensation – and a topic – that has recently attracted much attention among historians, particularly those working in the field of the history of emotions. This post interrogates perceptions of mental pain that link this feeling to … Continue reading
Dr Thomas Dixon is Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London. In my previous post on this blog I wrote about Oscar Wilde’s famous courtroom defence of the ‘love that dare not … Continue reading
Susanne Stoddart is a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her doctoral research explores the role of emotion in political culture, within the context of the Liberal welfare reforms introduced in Britain during the Edwardian period. The strong … Continue reading
From Dec 5-7, 2012, Stephanie Downes and Stephanie Trigg convened ‘Faces of Emotion: Medieval to Postmodern,’ an interdisciplinary symposium at the University of Melbourne. Here they reflect on three days of intensive discussion on, artwork about, and performance of, facial … Continue reading
By Yasmin Haskell (Chief Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions: Europe 1100-1800 at University of Western Australia) This post was first published on The Conversation in their Medical Histories series, recounting curious stories from the history of medicine. … Continue reading
When Mitt Romney was caught on camera writing-off 47 per cent of Americans as tax avoiders, Democrats were quick to jump on his remarks as another example of the Republican Party’s ‘empathy deficit’. Since Barack Obama identified a lack of … Continue reading
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
Dr Hannah Newton is a social historian of early modern England at the University of Cambridge, specialising in the experiences of illness, childhood, and the emotions. Hannah joined the Department of History and Philosophy of Science in 2011, as a Wellcome … Continue reading
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