I'm really pleased to see that this volume, to which I contributed a chapter, has a web presence. Jane Ewbank's 'diary' is a fascinating historical document and it was a real pleasure to revisit the familiar world of healthcare in early nineteenth-century York.
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Currently transcribing some letters written by Richard Owen held at LU library. One of the gems contained therein is Owen's reference to his relationship with East Sheen neighbour Edwin Chadwick in the 1880s: 'Neighbour Chadwick I see & listen to, weekly; but he never gets out of the sewers!’

The paperback copies of Emotions and Surgery have arrived! If you want to get your own hands on a discounted copy, you can use the promotional code in the flyer below ...

My Emotions & Surgery book is published in paperback this month & you can buy it at a discounted price of £23.99 using the attached flyer. Given that it is Open Acccess I don't know how many of you will want to take advantage, but there is pleasure to be had in physical books! tinyurl.com/4umkzw48

Yesterday I discovered, to my mild delight, that not only will my surgery book be published in paperback in April (if you'd like a more affordable physical copy) but that it was selected as one of Choice's outstanding academic titles for 2024! www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/...

I particularly love @jbhist.bsky.social's chapter about Charles and Marion Bell's hair locket because, well, why wouldn't I? It's by my wife about some of my favourite historical subjects. But it's also wonderful to see my former PhD student @aliped.bsky.social in print again.

This is such an exciting & innovative book involving so many wonderful people. It's particularly apt that it's Open Access as it's one of those rare works that genuinely bridges the worlds of academic and popular history. It deserves the widest possible audience. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

Adverts for my funded PhD with Cumbria's Museum of Military Life on 'Emotions, Objects, and "Affective Curatorship" in the British Regimental Museum' are now available on the usual sites. Please spread the word through your channels!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM249/p...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I'll be advertising for a student soon, and this will contain more details about the project and the funding, but if you know anyone who might be interested and would potentially like to know more, they can drop me a line at m.brown23@lancaster.ac.uk.

This project considers the regimental museum as an emotional archive and explores how we might use emotional objects to shape more complex, inclusive, and diverse histories of the British army, war, and empire. It draws on some research I have been doing on emotions and martial material culture.

I'm delighted to announce that I've been awarded a fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD Studentship for a joint project between Lancaster University and Cumbria's Museum of Military Life entitled 'Emotions, Objects, and "Affective Curatorship" in the British Regimental Museum'.

We'll be appointing a F/T Public Engagement Fellow later next year too, & we cannot wait to get started both on our research & on some wonderful activities with our partners, the Quilters' Guild and @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social. We will ensure we have a vibrant digital presence, so stay tuned! 2/2

Today is a very exciting day, as it marks the official start of @jbhist.bsky.social and my AHRC Standard Grant research project, 'The Victorian Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, and Identity, Past and Present'. You may have seen the advert going around for a F/T Research Associate ... 1/2

Through our study of this scandal we demonstrate how early nineteenth-century radical reformers weaponised the politics of masculinity in their attacks on clerical 'hypocrites', shaping their identity as morally unimpeachable bastions of domestic respectability & heterosexual normativity 3/3

Using the device of 'exposure' we detail a little-known 1823 sex scandal involving a celebrity Congregational minister & two young builders at a bathhouse in Camberwell. This case attracted widespread press coverage at the time, but came under particular scrutiny from Thomas Wakley & The Lancet 2/3