It is now a commonplace for every discussion of the history of the emotions to start with reference to an ‘affective turn’, but the overcoming of historians by emotion of […]
The project was on the road again last week for the tenth conference of the International Society for Cultural History (26–29 June 2017). The event took as its topic ‘Senses, […]
Since I joined the project in late 2016, a regular extracurricular activity has been a weekend jaunt from my base in Norwich into the countryside of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, and […]
This Valentine’s Day, Ceri is hoping to catch some elusive Mancunian love-lockers in the act of locking their love. So she’ll be posting herself at Manchester’s iconic love-lock bridge throughout most […]
Videos of most papers are now available on our YouTube channel! To watch a specific talk, click on its title in the programme below. Tuesday 28 March 2017 Room 0.05, […]
Last weekend (19 November) I had the good fortune of being invited to speak at ‘The Haunted Landscape: British Folklore and Ghosts’ symposium, organised by Scott Wood of the London […]
I’ve been working as Senior Research Associate on the early modern strand of Inner Lives for nearly a month now, fresh from the Intoxicants Project at the University of Sheffield. It’s been […]
This week sees the launch of an ‘immersive experience’ at the London Dungeon focusing on the infamous Witchfinder General, Matthew Hopkins. As the author of a book on the subject, […]
Last week I presented a paper on the ‘Concealed Revealed’ project (see website here) at a workshop on ‘Coins, Hoards, and Special Deposits’, organised by Murray Andrews at the Institute […]
Last week Malcolm and I were fortunate enough to be invited to the ‘Supernatural Spaces in the Early Modern World’ workshop. Organised by Jenny Spinks, lecturer in early modern history […]
