“Sisu”: The Finnish for “Stiff Upper Lip”?

Dr Tuomas Tepora is a visiting postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary during the academic year 2012­–13 and holds a postdoctoral position at the University of Helsinki. His research deals with emotions … Continue reading

Episcopal emotions: Weeping in the life of the medieval bishop

Dr Katherine Harvey is as Associate Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London. Here, in a blog post adapted from her paper at the recent SSHM 2012 Conference hosted at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, she … Continue reading

Loyalty and a Dog Called Bobby

Liz Gray is a PhD student at the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions. Her doctoral research is into the work of the physician and comparative psychologist, William Lauder Lindsay. She has recently launched her own blog: Tales … Continue reading