Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS

The 2nd edition of the History of Emotions @manchesterup.bsky.social (2024) is "An essential work... truly a masterpiece" (Brad Irish) and "an essential introduction" (Jane Vaughan). manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526171177/ 1st edition available in Turkish, with Chinese and Greek forthcoming.

Finally done and handed over at Reaktion. Out next year.

Sept 30th is coming up. Send us your proposals!

The cfp for next year's Society for the History of Emotions conference in Vienna closes in 2 weeks. See you there? societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...

What is happiness, and should it be measured? HCAS fellows Acer Chang, Amanda Lagerkvist, @boddice.bsky.social, @satuv.bsky.social, and Kristina Jacobsen approach the World Happiness Report from different disciplinary perspectives in a new blog text. Read more: blogs.helsinki.fi/hcasblog/202...

The cfp for next year's Society for the History of Emotions conference in Vienna closes in 2 weeks. See you there? societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...

The cfp for next year's Society for the History of Emotions conference in Vienna closes in 2 weeks. See you there? societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...

The cfp for next year's Society for the History of Emotions conference in Vienna closes in 2 weeks. See you there? societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...

New on the HEX Handbook, Saku Pihko et al., Experience and the Temporalities of Lived Religion sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/...

Me, @boddice.bsky.social and @stephanietrigg.bsky.social talk to the ABC’s God Forbid show about the history of emotions. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Talking History of emotions on Australian radio www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

30% off 2nd edition of the History of Emotions with EVENT30 at the MUP website. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/06...

Turkish readers, you can let me know if this makes any sense medyascope.tv/2026/06/22/t...

This is an excellent defence of the humanities, and I don't say that just because I'm in it. youtu.be/QRN7LoQ-eKs?...

New issue of the Austrian Journal of Historical Studies on the history of emotions. Open access. journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/oe...

Professional athletes don't drink alcohol. These are overpaid amateurs. www.bbc.com/sport/cricke...

Just a reminder, emotions historians take note. Please continue to circulate the cfp.

New Element for sensory studies, human-animal relations, and urban history. Kelvin Low on Sensory Contact Zones in the City www.cambridge.org/core/element...

History of emotions, auf Deutsch www.zeit.de/zeit-magazin...

Post doc opportunity to work at the excellence centre on history of everyday nationalism in Tampere, Finland tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

Who wouldn't want to come to Vienna in June?

SHE 2027. Vienna. CFP. Emotions in Adversity.

CFP. The Society for the History of Emotions biennial conference. June 2-4, 2027. Vienna. Emotions in Adversity. societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conferen...

The ECHOES network is going live.

SHE 2027. Vienna. CFP. Emotions in Adversity.

Histoire des émotions dans Le Devoir www.ledevoir.com/lire/971111/...

History of emotions in History Today

talked to Aussie radio about the history of emotions the other day. Podcast here: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

New at HEX Handbook: Anna Derksen on medicine and experience sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/...

40% off @manchesterup.bsky.social till the end of January with code JAN40. 2nd edition of The History of Emotions is in the sale. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526171177/

On this episode of BBC radio 4's "Child" I spoke about the risks of emotional colonialism and the in-your-face approach to emotional recognition www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

That's me in the corner...

This one started for me with an almost childish question: Can we take it for granted that people in the past experienced reality the same way we do? It turns out a whole field of study and an important scholar were asking the same...down into this fascinating rabbit hole I went.

This was a long time in the making and I'm delighted it's now out. Huge thanks to @galbeckerman.bsky.social for his perseverance and diligence. Please check it out. Print edition will be out soon. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Conversation this morning with Derya Gürses Tarbuck on pain, emotions and politics. Go see www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwAi...

Conversation this morning with Derya Gürses Tarbuck on pain, emotions and politics. Go see www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwAi...

Ready for Spanish readers, to be launched in Mexico City at the SHE conference/Listo para los lectores españoles, se lanzará en la Ciudad de México en la conferencia SHE

Ready for Spanish readers, to be launched in Mexico City at the SHE conference/Listo para los lectores españoles, se lanzará en la Ciudad de México en la conferencia SHE

Turkish readers, this is published today! I haven't seen it yet. If anyone else has, let me know how it looks. www.kitapyurdu.com/kitap/acinin...

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s... the only write-up required. The whole thing was insufferable.

I missed this! This means a lot more to me than most academic reviews. Knowing Pain reviewed by Lynn Loheide www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sioe... @politybooks.bsky.social

The Tylenol thing is just another way to put women and children at risk and to underrate pain. These guys are essentially "let the weak go to the wall" pseudo social Darwinists. It was stupid when Wallace did it and it is evil now.

since it's 25C in Berlin and I have covid, I'm kind of celebrating not getting a place via the marathon lottery

looking up Andrea Železna, javelin thrower, to see if she is related to Jan Železny and finding that yes, she is, but not in the way I'd expected

Dose no. 8. The "mysterious" bug going around really ain't a mystery.

It's been a useless site for ages anyway. Deleted.

Reminder Fellows of @royalhistsoc.org have til 26 September to vote in upcoming Council elections! 🗳️ There's lots of great candidates & all committed to the field. Obvs ideally I'd like to be your choice 😜 But vital to vote for who you feel will represent you & profession #skystorians #academicsky