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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS

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🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket.
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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Jan 25

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.

Manchester University Press - The history of emotions

The history of emotions - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of The history of emotions by Rob Boddice

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 14d

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...

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 21d

That's me in the corner...

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21d

A radical new field of history asks if we can ever really understand how our forebears experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow, Gal Beckerman writes.

You Had to Be There

An emerging field of history asks if we can ever really understand how our forebears experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 21d

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...

A Radical New Approach to Human History

The historians who want to know how our ancestors experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 21d

A radical new field of history asks if we can ever really understand how our forebears experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow, Gal Beckerman writes.

You Had to Be There

An emerging field of history asks if we can ever really understand how our forebears experienced love, anger, fear, and sorrow.

bit.ly

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Nov 7

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

A Conversation with Rob Boddice

YouTube video by Herkes İçin Bilim ve Düşünce Tarihi

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Oct 21

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

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Oct 1

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...

Acının Tarihi: Duyum, Duygu ve Deneyim

Acının Tarihi: Duyum Duygu ve Deneyim - AYRINTI YAYINLARI - Rob Boddice - Ağrı hakkındaki bilgimiz nasıl üretilir geliştirilir ve yayılır? Tı

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 29

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

US fan ugliness at the Ryder Cup was merely a reflection of Trump’s all-caps America | Bryan Armen Graham

European players were subjected to slurs and crude insults about their families. They were no surprise as public discourse in America has broken down

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 24

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

Book Review | Knowing Pain

YouTube video by Lynn Loheide

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 23

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.

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 21

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

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 19

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

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 19

Thanks. Feels very familiar

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 19

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

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 19

have a great day. I'm missing it with presumptive covid.

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 18

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

Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · Sep 17

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Dorothy Bishop , and 25 more Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Dorothy Bishop, David M. Schultz, Philip N. Cohen, Martin Paul Eve, Judith N. Shklar, Ingo Rohlfing, George McKay, Melanie C. Green, Andrew Jacobs, Christine Kooi, Rob Boddice, Suzanne de Cheveigné, Julia M. Wright, Aoife O’Donoghue, Jonathan Webber, Erin O’Donnell, Brian Weatherson, Stuart White, Nelson Flores, Marcus Credé, Urška Demšar, Thessa Jensen, Kirstin Drenkhahn, Mary McAuliffe, Annette Yoshiko Reed, David Spurrett

Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · Sep 17

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 16

You had me at "reminder"

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · Sep 16

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

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Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social · Sep 15

New open access article, based on my keynote at the HES conference in Sheffield : Towards an Emotional and Experiential History of Modern Education: Children’s Essays on the Cinema Around the First World War www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @hexhistory.bsky.social

Towards an Emotional and Experiential History of Modern Education: Children’s Essays on the Cinema Around the First World War

This article probes the potential of emotional and experiential histories of education. London children’s school essays on their experiences in the First World War, their stories, their dreams and ...

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HEXHandbook @hexhandbook.bsky.social · Sep 10

And from earlier this summer, Tessa Whitehouse on digital mapping as a tool for the history of experience sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/....

Digital mapping as a tool for the history of experience | Digital Handbook of the History of Experience | Tampere Universities

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HEXHandbook @hexhandbook.bsky.social · Sep 10

New on HEX Handbook, Beth Marsden on writing the historical experiences of Indigenous people. sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/...

Researching and writing Indigenous people’s historical experiences: a reflection on limits and possibilities | Digital Handbook of the History of Experience | Tampere Universities

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Sep 9

Recently had to convert a piece into APA style and thought that seemed pretty hideous for a historian. But now I'm converting a piece into an esoteric Austrian style and it is wild. Wild, I say.

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HEXHandbook @hexhandbook.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join us @hexhistory.bsky.social at the end of the month for the 2nd Hex Handbook Distinguished lecture, by Corinne Saunders

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

yeah, and we all bite, eh? I think it's actually a special kind of ignorance combined with a special kind of arrogance. Lethal cocktail when well funded.

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

they don't learn because they still don't know we exist. By now, Nature has serious form.

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

Or perhaps, encore une fois, avec sensibilité!

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

Oh, I am so imagining this

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

well, I'm not sure "emotion" is an appropriate category at all. One would need to assess the dynamic interplay of raison, passion, sensibilité and mentalité in the specific context of gendered humoral bodies. The whole premise of the study is bogus.

Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · Aug 30

Aside from all the other objections, the emotion/rationality binary is a crock.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Historians may have words to say about this.

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

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