History of emotions, senses, experience
Sensory and emo historians, all periods and places
Created by
@boddice.bsky.social
@ehcsjournal.bsky.social
The Society for the History of Emotions, home of peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal Emotions: History Culture Society (EHCS). Publisher De Gruyter Brill. www.societyhistoryemotions.com
@alicecrossley.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, English Literature (University of Lincoln). Ageing in Victorian lit; 19th- century paper ephemera; valentines; material/visual cultures; history of emotions; masculinity studies; Japanese fiction | FRHistS. FHEA. - Own views -
@sophie-turbutt.bsky.social
Historian of 1920s-30s Spanish anarchism: interested in gender, comradeship, intimacy & emotions. PhD@Uni of Leeds 📚 she/her
@profrichfg.bsky.social
#Writer of Many Things from books to YouTube Scripts viewed by tens of millions. Writing and Emo Intelligence #Consultant #History Of #Emotion Thinker, #Musician. Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Humanities @Woxsen Uni.
@alixhui.bsky.social
Historian of science, environment, sound, and silence. Raising small kids through covid. Pie hobbyist. The Johnny Appleseed of googly-eyes.
@tomduncombe.bsky.social
History professor specializing in Britain and U.S., currently working on mental health in Progressive-era New Mexico.
@oferidels.bsky.social
Historian | Zionism and Experience | Postdoc @ucalgary.bsky.social | Former Humboldt Fellow | Author: Zionism: Emotions, Language & Experience (CUP) & Embodying the Revolution (RUP) | @newcastleunited.com Fan. https://ucalgary.academia.edu/OferIdels
@designhist.bsky.social
Historian of design, emotions, 19C France, destruction, ruins and the like. writing a book about the aftermath of the Paris Commune.
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social
Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
@tonitorousseau.bsky.social
Docteur en histoire (Paris 1) et ATER (Paris Cité) // UMR Mondes Américains / Revista Nuevo Mundo / Podcast @lapanamericaine.bsky.social // Histoire sociale, environnementale et sensorielle de la colonisation dans le Grand Chaco.
@zuoya.bsky.social
Historian, middle and late imperial China, cultural history, history of emotions, Associate Professor at UC Santa Barbara
@profthomasdixon.bsky.social
Year 6 and maths teacher. ECT. Historian of emotions. Honorary Professor at QMUL. Author. Broadcaster.
@carozqueta.bsky.social
Historian, curator, and writer interested in the transdisciplinary intersections of art, nature, science, and technology; energies in the arts; and the history of medicine.
@yanikdag.bsky.social
Professor of History and Global Studies | Studies the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic | Emotions and Masculinities | The Ottoman First World War | First generation college grad.
@marievhaaster.bsky.social
PhD researcher @eui-eu | History of Consolation, Health, Welfare, Religion, Experience
@hexhandbook.bsky.social
Digital Handbook of the History of Experience, published under the auspices of the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience, Tampere University. https://sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/
@lmillerrenberg.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History; FRHistS. Recording Officer, @socrefresearch.bsky.social. Dance, religion, gender, emotions 1200-1600. Books: @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and Routledge.
@micheleplott.bsky.social
Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
@historybeagle.bsky.social
Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. Faculty Dean PG, Arts & Humanities, Uni of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
@queerstorian.bsky.social
Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
@micahcarlson.bsky.social
-PhD Candidate and adjunct professor of #History. -#Dissertation on #ghosts and #ghoststories in the U.S. South. -Expert at responding to bruh and petting cats -Posts do not reflect the views of my employer or degree-granting institution -Sometimes funny
@douglaskahn.bsky.social
Writer, historian and theorist of the arts, focus on sound and energies, with STS-ish background. Books: Energies in the Arts (2019), Earth Sound Earth Signal (2013), Noise Water Meat (1999).
@tlmarttinen.bsky.social
Nordic Colonialism, Indigenized Lutheranism & Eugenics. Interests: Lived Stories/ Race & Genetics/ Disability & Euthanasia. PhD (C) CMH Oxford Brookes U. http://CONFRONT-EUGENICS.ORG. Research Collaboration-CEMFOR Uppsala U. SSHRC Awardee
@jhowesuk.bsky.social
Art Historian looking for dirt on Britain’s imperial past in museums & archives. Author of “The Art of a Corporation: The East India Company as Patron and Collector". Wife, mother, pug owner. www.jenniferhowes.com
@ar-s.bsky.social
Earlymodernist, Literature Professor @Sorbonne nouvelle. French studies, Rhetoric, argumentation, eloquence, history of emotions, religious studies, travel narratives, historiography, preaching, (auto)biography, non-fiction
@mlarisseelias.bsky.social
Historian | PhD candidate in Contemporary History @uff_br | Research interests: Elections in the Nineteenth-century; History of Emotions.
@kevinini.bsky.social
Interested in the history and philosophy of {physics, climate science, earth science}, medieval-early modern science and the history of emotions | He/they
@asimonekeland.bsky.social
Academic librarian at the University of Oslo and historian of exploration in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly interested in the polar regions, the history of celebrity and the history of emotions
@satusorvali.bsky.social
PhD, cultural historian at the University of Turku / Senior Officer in the National Archives of Finland / Late 19th-century, press history, the history of emotions, digital methods and tools
@niamhcullen.bsky.social
Lecturer in history at QUB. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
@alexoberlaender.bsky.social
Russian/Soviet history Cultural History of Work History of Sexual Violence History of Emotions associate editor @ Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History OEI/FU Berlin FSO Bremen #skystorians
@rachelbynoth.bsky.social
Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety,distant communications and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
@gigitang.bsky.social
Postdoc on Research Ireland-funded project ‘Minerals’, UC Dublin School of English. PhD in English. Research global 19c, extraction, infrastructure, petition, periodicals, travel writing, Trollope, emotion history. Adore dogs. she/ her.
@sarahds.bsky.social
Researcher, Imperial College London • Historian #HistMed • PhD in Military Medicine • Blast Injury • Chronic Pain • Applied History • Cats, Podcasts & Spooky Things. And Pastry.
@elwinhofman.bsky.social
Historian | Crime, emotions, sexuality & self 18-20C | Assistant Professor & MSCA fellow Cultural History Utrecht University | Latest books: The Business of Pleasure | Trials of the Self
@rtvan.bsky.social
Prof & DH Coordinator @CPP. Early Americans abroad, merchants, smugglers, capitalists, family history = labor history. In it for the gossip. Views my own.
@clivehenry.bsky.social
phd student researching post-war fascism/history of emotions at uni of Northampton; proud enjoyer of all the musics; diy or die; new puritan est domini; shivering winner/moody brooder.
@slobogin.bsky.social
Art historian of medicine Assistant Professor, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ University of Rochester (Joint Appointment in Art & Art History) plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social co-host she / her
@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | EXORCISM (2025) | PERFORMING ANIMAL MAGNETISM (2026)
@emyang.bsky.social
Philosophically-bent, historian/childhood studies PhD, Wellcome Trust Fellow, history of medicine, material culture/moral babies & children/amateur thespian/tea snob Based in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at University of Leeds
@mauricejcasey.com
Historian of intimacy and revolution in interwar Europe (think Marks & Engels meets Mills & Boon). Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats: archiverats.substack.com
@andresgattinoni.com.ar
Historiador de melancolías ajenas. Amante de las etimologías, cuanto más truchas mejor. Influencer de notas al pie. / Historian of alien melancholies. Lover of (specially false) etymologies. Footnote influencer. #18thc #EarlyModern 🗃️
@ttepora.bsky.social
Historian, Senior research fellow at Tampere University. Title of Docent at the University of Helsinki. The history of Finnish nationalism, collective remembrance, emotions & experience.
@raisatoivo.bsky.social
Professor of the history of society. I work on history of experience and early modern history in general, on faith and religion, family and gender and withchcraft on particular. I am a person.
@jmzaragoza.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine & Science. Father of two. I teach "Technoscience, Nature and Society" at @FacFilosoMurcia.
@meghanhwoolley.bsky.social
Historian and writing instructor studying emotions and law in 12th and 13th-century England.
@rubyrutter.bsky.social
Historian of women, emotions, mental health + the lived experience in the long C18. Social Media Editor for the European Review of History. 2024 Uni of Leeds Bedford Fellow for ‘Buying Happiness: Emotion and Advertising Ephemera’. Views are my own 🫧
@anaantic.bsky.social
Social and cultural historian of psychiatry/Centre for Culture and the Mind
@dgtarbuck.bsky.social
History of Science, Intellectual History, Eighteenth Century, History of Sociability.
@hhakosalo.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and health. Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oulu, Visiting Fellow (2023‐24) at the University of Cambridge
@jennikuu.bsky.social
Historian of medieval and early modern lived religion, sainthood, witchcraft, and disability. Currently working as a senior lecturer at the Uni. of Turku. May also talk about dogs and agility. Writing in Finnish and English. She/her.
@reinarz.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, accidents, hospitals, medical simulation, medical education, museums, alcohol, breweries, the senses, smell… oh, and a keen cyclist, if I’m not reading a good book.
@kalexand.bsky.social
@ilariascaglia.bsky.social
History Senior Lecturer at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. Author of The Emotions of Internationalism (OUP, 2020) and co-editor of Archives and Emotions (2024). Internationalism, culture, archives, emotions. Views are mine. https://ilariascaglia.com
@nachemotion.bsky.social
The North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) 🌎 Promoting and organizing publications, colloquia, conferences, & more! https://nachemotion.wordpress.com
@annajpravdica.bsky.social
AHRC-Midlands4Cities funded History PhD at the University of Warwick, researching sincerity, deceit, and social identity in seventeenth- & eighteenth-century Britain 🎭 Also managing @nachemotion.bsky.social ✨ https://linktr.ee/annapravdica
@charlotte-millar.bsky.social
Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne, works on supernatural belief, the history of emotions and print culture. Book in progress: Ghostly Emotions: Space, Satan, and the Supernatural in post-Reformation England
@leticiafontecha.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, science, childhood, pain. Writer. Poet. Book: Childhood, Pain and Emotion: A Modern British Medical History (CUP soon!). Current project: Infants: A Medical History of Early Life
@beapichel.bsky.social
Historian of photography, medicine and emotions and PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5. She/her
@stephanieolsen.bsky.social
Historian of childhood, experience, emotions and education of Britain, Empire, Global. Editor of History of Education. Senior Researcher, Centre for the History of Experiences (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦
@burmanphd.bsky.social
Theory & History of Psychology at the University of Groningen (@rug-gmw.bsky.social). Elected fellow of the APA in History 26 and Developmental 7. Elected president of the APA division for History, 2024-2026. Advisor to NWO SSH Roundtable for Humanities.
@katebradleyhistory.bsky.social
Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
@victoriabates.bsky.social
Historian at University of Bristol, but not representing my employer etc etc etc
@willtullett.bsky.social
He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
@melaniekiechle.bsky.social
Historian of #C19 United States: health, science, cities, environments, and smells. Lots of smells. Author of Smell Detectives. Now musing alternatively about buried creeks, sensitivity, and an ill woman.
@janehamlett.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
@sallyholloway.bsky.social
Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture, researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow | On maternity leave until 05/25
@agnesjuliet.bsky.social
Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy | Think Tanks / Academia | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
@15thcgossipgirl.bsky.social
Explorer of books, lover of words. Substacking at Page by Page.
@evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
@katherineschof8.bsky.social
Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Exvangelical. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofie
@profelainechalus.bsky.social
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
@jaivirdi.com
Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Delaware. Deaf & forever a radical Learn more: jaivirdi.com
@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 Tampere. https://www.robboddice.com/