Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS
@boddice.bsky.social
🇨🇦 Historian of Emotions, Science, Medicine, Experience, Pain, Placebo/Nocebo. Global and longue duree, but esp Britain C18-20. Neuroscience meddler. Running; guitars; cricket.
Montreal and Helsinki. https://www.robboddice.com/
Montreal and Helsinki. https://www.robboddice.com/
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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
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
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.
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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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November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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...
A Conversation with Rob Boddice
YouTube video by Herkes İçin Bilim ve Düşünce Tarihi
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Conversation this morning with Derya Gürses Tarbuck on pain, emotions and politics. Go see www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwAi...
Reposted by Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS
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
October 21, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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
October 21, 2025 at 5:36 AM
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.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
www.kitapyurdu.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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.kitapyurdu.com/kitap/acinin...
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
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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
Book Review | Knowing Pain
YouTube video by Lynn Loheide
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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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.
September 23, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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
September 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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
September 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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.
September 19, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Dose no. 8. The "mysterious" bug going around really ain't a mystery.
It's been a useless site for ages anyway. Deleted.
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.
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.
September 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
It's been a useless site for ages anyway. Deleted.
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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
September 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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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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 ...
www.tandfonline.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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
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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
sites.tuni.fi
September 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
New on HEX Handbook, Beth Marsden on writing the historical experiences of Indigenous people. sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/...
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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
sites.tuni.fi
September 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
And from earlier this summer, Tessa Whitehouse on digital mapping as a tool for the history of experience sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/....
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.
September 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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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Join us @hexhistory.bsky.social at the end of the month for the 2nd Hex Handbook Distinguished lecture, by Corinne Saunders
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Join us @hexhistory.bsky.social at the end of the month for the 2nd Hex Handbook Distinguished lecture, by Corinne Saunders
Aside from all the other objections, the emotion/rationality binary is a crock.
August 30, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Aside from all the other objections, the emotion/rationality binary is a crock.
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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.
www.nature.com
August 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Historians may have words to say about this.
Increasingly finding that my brain has no capacity for reading or following basic instructions.
August 19, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Increasingly finding that my brain has no capacity for reading or following basic instructions.
Happiness has many more meanings besides and can't be divorced from the situated politics in which it is entangled. Pain is no less complex. One could argue that modern (since C18) happiness has been about economic satisfaction (serving whom?!); and pain (grief) is defined by failure to comply.
So many emotion terms have double meanings. Like *happiness* as "living virtuously" (eudaimonic) vs happiness as "the pursuit of pleasure not pain" (hedonic).
Nontrivial progress in the neurosci. of the 2nd is in scope for this era, I think. (How! Exciting!).
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Nontrivial progress in the neurosci. of the 2nd is in scope for this era, I think. (How! Exciting!).
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
August 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Happiness has many more meanings besides and can't be divorced from the situated politics in which it is entangled. Pain is no less complex. One could argue that modern (since C18) happiness has been about economic satisfaction (serving whom?!); and pain (grief) is defined by failure to comply.
This must be the worst mugging ever at the University of Chicago.
August 14, 2025 at 7:03 AM
This must be the worst mugging ever at the University of Chicago.
Die Hard is perfect.
Annie Hall.
One, Two, Three.
Das Leben der Anderen.
Lawrence of Arabia.
Godfather 2.
Annie Hall.
One, Two, Three.
Das Leben der Anderen.
Lawrence of Arabia.
Godfather 2.
in your opinion, completely subjective, no metrics and no judgment, what are the best written movies of all time? I don't care if you have never seen a screenplay in your life, just which story itself is the most moving and complete and perfect to you?
August 14, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Die Hard is perfect.
Annie Hall.
One, Two, Three.
Das Leben der Anderen.
Lawrence of Arabia.
Godfather 2.
Annie Hall.
One, Two, Three.
Das Leben der Anderen.
Lawrence of Arabia.
Godfather 2.
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PSA.
July 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
PSA.