Tag: emotions

  • The History of Emotions: A Four Volume Sourcebook

    The History of Emotions: A Four Volume Sourcebook

    KATIE BARCLAY, with FRANÇOIS SOYER, is editor of Emotions in Europe, 1517-1914 (Routledge, 2020), a four volume sourcebook. Here she talks to History about the work. History: What was the inspiration behind this project? Katie: I’ve been teaching History of Emotions courses for several years now and had been developing a series of resources to support students…

  • Feeling Sickness: Emotional responses to pandemic diseases

    Feeling Sickness: Emotional responses to pandemic diseases

    DR MONICA O’BRIEN It’s a wintery afternoon and, once again, I’m scrolling through news articles about Covid-19. Since countries entered their first lockdowns, much has been written on the pandemic’s emotional and psychological impacts.  Loss, loneliness, fear, stress, anger; these emotions figure prominently in many narratives of the pandemic. It seems that emotional consequences will…

  • Worrying about the Field of the History of Emotions in Ireland – A report

    Worrying about the Field of the History of Emotions in Ireland – A report

    Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi Back in November, when the world was still in a relatively ‘normal’ state, I asked Dr Hannah Parker about the possibly of writing a report for the new History website concerning a series of events I was organising under the title, “Worrying about the Field of the History of Emotions in Ireland”.…

  • Emotions and Work: an interview with Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison moulds

    Emotions and Work: an interview with Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison moulds

    In November 2019, Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison Moulds held ‘Emotions and Work’, a day-long conference funded by the Royal Historical Society and the Wellcome Trust via the Living with Feeling Project at QMUL, exploring the troubled relationship between emotions and labour, and considering how frameworks and methodologies of the history of emotions can be critically…