Posts tagged with 'emotions'

Project postdoctoral fellow Dr Jo Edge will give a paper at 'Writing the Self in Pain: Historial Perspectives', a two-day conference hosted by the Experiencing Agony project team at the University of ...

Project postdoctoral fellow Dr Jo Edge will give a paper at the Centre for Early Modern Studies' Research Seminar, University of Aberdeen at 13:00 on Wednesday 09 October 2024 (contact them for a link...

Dr Beatrice Alex is Senior Lecturer and Chancellor’s Fellow at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures and the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her research focuses on text mining and natural la...

We are delighted to announce the digital release of a further 81 pages of the Book of Remembrances. With half of this book now available to browse, we’d love to hear your comments on the text and the ...

One of the benefits of working with Alice Thornton’s original manuscripts is that we got to see that where later editors had written ‘heart’, Thornton herself had sometimes used the sign (or emoji) ♡....

Content note: miscarriage, child illness In February 1655, Alice Thornton was in bed recovering from giving birth to her second daughter, Elizabeth (Betty), when her maid called out to her. Her one-ye...