A History of Emotions

An attempt to think and write about the history of emotions across time and place, with a few thoughts and images from a Scot in Exile thrown in.

Monday, 10 October 2011

tv hugs

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Here's a great piece on the recent history of televisual emotions which have permeated wider society. Adam Curtis is one of the BBC'...
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Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Han 한

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I have often been fascinated by non western emotional states and how they can shine a light onto how humanity relates to its emotions. I thi...
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Sunday, 26 June 2011

a longer history of emotions?

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Sorry about the advert at the beginning, but this National Geographic video struck me as interesting. Is it showing one of our closely relat...
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Monday, 21 February 2011

the anatomy of melancholy

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A sign of our modern era? A story (admittedly a few months old) on the BBC website about the way we relate to depression. In times gone pas...
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Saturday, 16 October 2010

Saudade

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In an occasional series of emotions that English does not have a specific translation for but has syntheses of recognisable emotions or may ...
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Friday, 17 September 2010

The anatomy of melancholy

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the anatomy of melancholy Why do we love a certain kind of sadness so much that we crave it so in our music, in our books, in so much of our...
Friday, 25 June 2010

infanticide

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A curious tale from the BBC . Archaeological remains in England show a mass grave of around 97 new-born infants from a Roman building, belie...
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Sunday, 13 June 2010

Emotional Freedom

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Ok so I'm only doing this about 2 months later than intended. Sigh... It is not enough for historians of emotion to merely document the ...
Thursday, 10 June 2010

A question for historians of emotion

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A hypothetical one - the reality would of course be impossible. Imagine in the future, historians come to look back upon our world. If they ...
Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Torridon in the Spring

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Another cracker from Steve Carter to soothe the toubled soul.
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A journalist working in television documentaries in London. A Scot who never felt at home there but who remains passionately attached to his homeland. A fool trying to get over writer's block
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