Agnes Arnold-Forster and David Saunders reflect on their experiences of public engagement in Gateshead. This year, the theme of BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking Festival was ’emotion’ and one of the Wellcome Trust-funded projects housed in the Centre for the … Continue reading
A necklace received as a gift from a loved one, photographs, a child’s toy… What objects are you emotionally attached to, and what feelings do they conjure up? On Saturday 20 May, researchers from Queen Mary Centre for the History … 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
Jane Mackelworth is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London, working on a thesis entitled ‘Writing Sapphic Love and Desire in Britain, 1900-1950.’ Dr Sally Holloway is an Affiliated Research Scholar at the … Continue reading