Best Centre for the History of the Emotions Podcasts (2024)

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Lust 7:08

5M ago7:08

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A series of short podcasts on different emotions, made with researchers from the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. These podcasts were commissioned as part of a Wellcome Trust funded research project, 'Living With Feeling: Emotional Health in History, Philosophy, and Experience', and were produced by Natalie Steed.…

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Shame 7:12

5M ago7:12

7:12

A series of short podcasts on different emotions, made with researchers from the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. These podcasts were commissioned as part of a Wellcome Trust funded research project, 'Living With Feeling: Emotional Health in History, Philosophy, and Experience', and were produced by Natalie Steed.…

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Sympathy 7:00

5M ago7:00

7:00

A series of short podcasts on different emotions, made with researchers from the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. These podcasts were commissioned as part of a Wellcome Trust funded research project, 'Living With Feeling: Emotional Health in History, Philosophy, and Experience', and were produced by Natalie Steed.…

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Unfeeling 7:43

5M ago7:43

7:43

A series of short podcasts on different emotions, made with researchers from the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions. These podcasts were commissioned as part of a Wellcome Trust funded research project, 'Living With Feeling: Emotional Health in History, Philosophy, and Experience', and were produced by Natalie Steed.…

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Future Feelings 44:58

2y ago44:58

44:58

It's the final episode of the series, but what have we learned about emotions past, present, and future? Thomas Dixon, Sarah Chaney and Richard Firth-Godbehere reflect back on what they have learned from the series, discuss what emotions might look like in the future, whether we should stop telling people “Your emotions are valid”, and what histori…

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Emotional AI 44:21

2y ago44:21

44:21

Do wellbeing apps and emotional mood trackers make you feel nervous, furious, or happy?In this episode, historian of emotions and author Richard Firth-Godbehere goes in search of the science, technology, ethics, and feelings behind emotional AI.Fellow historian Thomas Dixon acts a guinea pig for Richard, trying out some emotion-tracking apps. with …

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Childhood Trauma 42:24

2y ago42:24

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When it comes to childhood trauma, do our bodies keep the score, and with what emotional impacts?Historian of child psychology Emma Sutton finds out about the recent explosion of interest in "trauma-informed" approaches and their impact on family relationships. She tries out some trauma-informed therapy herself, and discusses with therapists and ex…

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Happiness Lessons 48:05

2y ago48:05

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Should mindfulness and happiness take their place on the school curriculum alongside maths and literacy?Thomas Dixon asks whether 200-year-old ideas about love, emotions, and primary education are still relevant today. He visits three schools with different approaches to emotions, and meets experts on mental health and wellbeing - asking whether th…

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Robot Nurses 39:11

2y ago39:11

39:11

Unexpected item in bagging area! Machines can provoke many emotions, including rage and anxiety. But can they also care?In Episode 2 of "Living With Feeling", historian of nursing Sarah Chaney meets some care robots and discusses with experts what these machines are for, and what they can offer. Sarah probes the potential and the limitations of car…

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Rethinking Emotions 44:26

2y ago44:26

44:26

In this first episode of "Living With Feeling" - our new series about emotions in the 21st century - priest and writer Giles Fraser and psychotherapist Philippa Perry join Thomas Dixon for a lively conversation, tackling some big questions about the place of emotions in modern culture.Philippa, Giles, and Thomas discuss whether people are too ready…

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Living With Feeling. Trailer. 1:48

2y ago1:48

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Welcome to "Living With Feeling", our new podcast series about emotions in the 21st Century. Please subscribe via Apple, Spotify, Acast, or wherever you get your podcasts. Search for "Living With Feeling" or follow one of the links below. APPLE: https://apple.co/3aM5RrbSPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/3uWhKSi ACAST: https://shows.acast.com/living-with-fee…

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Oh! What a Visual War with Beatriz Pichel 32:43

3y ago32:43

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The First World War was a literary conflict producing some of the most memorable poems, novels and plays of the twentieth century. While the Second World War left behind a striking visual record, including famous pictures such as Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima and Wait for Me Daddy, the First World War is not generally remembered as a visual conflict…

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The American War in Vietnam with Rob Thompson 32:50

3y ago32:50

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In 1965, in the coastal province of Phú Yên, US Armed Forces embarked on an effort to pacify one of the least-secured regions of South Vietnam. Often described as the “other war” to win the “Hearts and minds” of the Vietnamese, pacification was, in reality, a destructive process that relied on the means of conventional warfare to succeed. Clearing,…

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In the Path of War with David Borys 28:12

3y ago28:12

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Canada’s military history in Northwest Europe has been told many times. On 6 June 1944, Canadian forces landed on Juno Beach as part of Operation Overlord, before quickly establishing a bridgehead and moving inland where they encountered, but ultimately overcame, stiff resistance. As the German Reich shrunk in the face of the Allied advance, the Ca…

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Broken Promises with Christopher Capozzola 30:38

3y ago30:38

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The United States and the Philippines have been intimately bound by conflict. A US colony from 1898 to 1946, it remained an important US ally in the Pacific. In that time, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos fought and died for the United States, including against fellow Filipinos who opposed their US colonizers and against the Japanese occupation. …

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A Curious Case of Shell Shock with Joy Porter 32:31

3y ago32:31

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In April 1918, Canadian soldier Frank Toronto Prewett was buried alive on the Western Front. Managing to claw his way out of the earth, Prewett was reborn but with a lasting trauma that manifested in a curious way. while recuperating alongside Siegfried Sassoon and W.H.R. Rivers at Lennel House, Prewett started to act and identify as an Iroquois ma…

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A War of Emotions with Lucy Noakes 28:54

3+ y ago28:54

28:54

The first half of Britain’s twentieth century was shaped by death. Between 1914 and 1918, over 700,000 men died in the First World War, followed by another 250,000 between 1918 and 1919 from the influenza pandemic. Over three decades later, another 380,000 were killed fighting in the Second World War as well over 60,000 civilians from German air ra…

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The Great War at Home with Martha Hanna 30:27

3+ y ago30:27

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For a long time historians studying the First World War had to rely on the memoirs of soldiers, but over the last several decades, more and more letters have made their way into the archives as family members inherit and donate the written material of their relatives. These sources have initiated a new wave of scholarship devoted to identifying how…

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Biodefense and the War on Terror with Gwen D'Arcangelis 23:17

3+ y ago23:17

23:17

In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, five people were killed and another seventeen were injured from anthrax spores as part of a deliberate attack against members of the US media and Senate. Fears quickly spread that this was another incident of Islamic terrorism. As part of the US-led War on Terror, large sums of money and resou…

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Disaster in Halifax, 1917 with Roger Sarty 29:27

3+ y ago29:27

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On the morning of 6 December 1917 two cargo vessells, the SS Mant Blanc and SS Imo collided in Halifax Harbour. The resulting catastrophic explosion occurred thousands of miles away from the Western Front but it was a direct result of the First World War. The war was also essential for what followed. Of the 3000 troop garrison located at Halifax, 1…

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Reclaiming Canada's Second World War with Tim Cook 27:32

3+ y ago27:32

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In his new book The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering and Remaking Canada’s Second World War, Tim Cook reminds us that "if we do not tell our own stories, no one else will." But the ways in which Canadians have chosen to remember the Second World War has been far from consistent. Once viewed as the necessary war, the country qu…

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The Black Watch Snipers with David O'Keefe 24:13

3+ y ago24:13

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David O’Keefe is the author of One Day in August: The Untold Story Behind Canada’s Tragedy at Dieppe and his most recent book, Seven Days in Hell: Canada’s Battle for Normandy and the Rise of the Black Watch Snipers. Never one to shy away from public exposure, O’Keefe has also been prolific in film and television, creating and collaborating in more…

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The Mind 31:37

3+ y ago31:37

31:37

What is the mind? Can we think of it as a ‘space’? Where might we look for the mind and what might be going on inside it when we experience solitude? These are some of the questions addressed in this episode. We hear from neuroscientist Sarah Garfinkel about the mind as an interface between brain and heart, and historian of psychoanalysis Akshi Sin…

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On Spiritual Solitude 36:16

3+ y ago36:16

36:16

As part of the 'Spaces of Solitude' series, Hetta Howes presents a conversation between Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford University, and the most Revd Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury. Discussion ranges from personal experiences of solitude and silence, to ‘thin-places’ and speaking in tongues.Presented by…

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The Cell 34:00

3+ y ago34:00

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In this episode, Hetta Howes and Charlie Williams look at experiences of imprisonment and solitary confinement, asking how we can understand the effects of enforced isolation on the human psyche? They speak first to Lisa Guenther, who charts the rise and rise of solitary confinement in the United States and the links between this practice and the l…

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On Solitary Confinement 45:43

3+ y ago45:43

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As part of the 'Spaces of Solitude' series, Hetta Howes speaks to researchers Lisa Guenther and Shokoufeh Sakhi. Lisa is a Canadian philosopher and activist who works on critical prison studies; Shokoufeh is a former political prisoner from Iran who writes about imprisonment and the self. In this conversation, they discuss the histories and philoso…

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The City 36:37

3+ y ago36:37

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The German sociologist Georg Simmel famously claimed that ‘one nowhere feels as lonely and lost as in the metropolitan crowd’. Hetta Howes and Charlie Williams take a walk through London to explore this classic idea of loneliness and the many ways of being alone in a city. They hear from Matthew Beaumont about the long tradition of ‘nightwalkers’, …

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Perilous Places 35:59

3+ y ago35:59

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Hetta Howes and James Morland continue their exploration of solitude in this episode, pondering the perilous places we sometimes enter in the search for aloneness. James introduces listeners to the graveyard poets of the 18th century, who sought out places of darkness to explore their biggest fears and deepest anxieties. Hetta then speaks to Josh C…

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The Garden 35:54

3+ y ago35:54

35:54

How did gardens come to play such a key part in the history of solitude? Hetta Howes sets out to answer this question with James Morland, who moves from the idyllic but complex seclusion of Eden to the refuge of queer ecology in Derek Jarman’s garden at Prospect Cottage to offer a reading of gardens as spaces of escape. Laura Seymour discusses how …

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The Sanctum 37:21

3+ y ago37:21

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In the opening episode of our series, Hetta Howes and Barbara Taylor take us on a journey through the history of spiritual solitude. Why have people of faith chosen to be alone throughout the ages and what perils do they face in doing so? Hetta meets Hilary Powell to discuss the secluded lives of medieval anchorites and hermits, and Revd Erica Long…

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Melissa Harrison on Solitude 19:29

4y ago19:29

19:29

An autobiographical essay on solitude, walking, the natural world, and emotions by the novelist and nature writer Melissa Harrison.Melissa reflects on what solitude has meant to her - and to others - from her childhood and early adult years to the recent period of lockdown in the summer of 2020. Recorded outside in the Suffolk countryside, this ess…

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Episode 35 - Writing Public History with Tim Cook 24:52

4y ago24:52

24:52

Tim Cook is a historian at the Canadian War Museum a two-time winner of the CP Stacey Award for the best book in the field of Canadian history, the 2009 winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the 2013 winner of the Pierre Berton Award for popularizing Canadian history and a member of the Order of Canada. With such a long list …

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Episode 34 - The Medic's Tale with Ted Barris 39:02

4y ago39:02

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At the age of 13, Ted Barris asked his father a common question: “Dad what did you do in the war?” This began a fifty-seven-year investigation into his father’s war experiences as a sergeant medic in the US Army during its bloodiest campaign during the liberation of Europe. The book that grew out of this question: Rush To Danger: Medics in the Line…

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Developing Emotions: Feelings in the Classroom 18:45

4y ago18:45

18:45

Developing Emotions is a pioneering programme of lessons designed to promote emotional literacy and emotional awareness in school children. It has been developed as a collaboration between the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University of London and TKAT Multi-Academy Trust. In February and March 2020 the lessons were piloted i…

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Episode 33 - Voicing Dissent during the First World War 24:39

4y ago24:39

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Henri Bourassa was a French Canadian nationalist, politician, journalist, and “one of the most…vocal voices of dissent in Canada during the First World War.” Despite Bourassa’s significance on the Canadian home front and within the international pacifist movement, his story is little-known outside of Quebec. Geoff Keelan sits down with Kyle Falcon …

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Schadenfreude 9:08

4y ago9:08

9:08

Tiffany Watt Smith looks back to 1930s London to discover what a rumbled drag ball can teach us about schadenfreude – the joy we feel in another’s misfortune. This is one of a series of short podcasts exploring what we do at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.By The Centre for the History of the Emotions, QMUL

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Nostalgia 7:05

4y ago7:05

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Agnes Arnold-Forster traces the history of nostalgia, from homesick Swiss mercenaries to contemporary US politics, and examines its effects on the professional lives of healthcare practitioners working in the NHS. This is one of a series of short podcasts exploring what we do at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.…

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Loneliness 8:30

4y ago8:30

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Join James Morland on his journey through poetic images of loneliness, as he wanders towards its emotional meaning. This is one of a series of short podcasts exploring what we do at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.By The Centre for the History of the Emotions, QMUL

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Happiness 7:39

4y ago7:39

7:39

In this episode, Ed Brooker finds surprising connections between bank holidays, Charles Darwin, and that most gluttonous of terms, happiness. This is one of a series of short podcasts exploring what we do at the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions.By The Centre for the History of the Emotions, QMUL

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Episode 32 - The American Civil War: Under the Knife 35:18

4y ago35:18

35:18

Approximately 750,000 people were killed over four years during the American Civil War, two-thirds of these fatalities were caused by disease. This staggering death count was a shock to American physicians who were unregulated, undertrained and operating in the dark. But the war also offered opportunities. In the laboratory of the battlefield, medi…

5y ago27:35

27:35

In this opening episode of a new podcast series about anger from the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions, historian of emotions Thomas Dixon sets out to discover what anger really is. He meets experts including psychologists and historians, and confronts his own furious demons, in an attempt to find an answer. Is there a "basic emotio…

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