Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS
🇨🇦 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. robboddice.com
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- Reposted by Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistSNEWS 📣 The CUP Element @draflint.bsky.social & I wrote on 'Outdoor Singing in Modern Britain: A Sensory and Emotional History' has been published & free to download here. Thanks to editorial team incl @boddice.bsky.social, reviewers and all who commented on WIP 🙏 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
- 40% off @manchesterup.bsky.social till the end of January with code JAN40. 2nd edition of The History of Emotions is in the sale. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526171177/
- On this episode of BBC radio 4's "Child" I spoke about the risks of emotional colonialism and the in-your-face approach to emotional recognition www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- That's me in the corner...
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- This was a long time in the making and I'm delighted it's now out. Huge thanks to @galbeckerman.bsky.social for his perseverance and diligence. Please check it out. Print edition will be out soon. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
- Conversation this morning with Derya Gürses Tarbuck on pain, emotions and politics. Go see www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwAi...
- 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.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
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
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- Reposted by Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistSNew on HEX Handbook, Beth Marsden on writing the historical experiences of Indigenous people. sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/...
- Reposted by Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistSAnd 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.
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- Aside from all the other objections, the emotion/rationality binary is a crock.
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- 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.
- 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.
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- Turn this off if you still have an Academia.edu account.
- "How things seem is not how they are" -- more reasons to pursue the history of experience. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- This has another two-weeks free-to-download facility. Go get it!
- Whoop! I think I'm done. One day to sit on it, but I think I'll click send to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social on Monday!
- Perseus and the internet archive down at the same time is just a bit much right now.
- Honestly, for how long has OUP been phoning it in, trading on its name? I haven't heard anything particularly positive in years.
- Colour me shocked. Shocked, I say. Who saw this coming? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
- It's been a while, but I reman fond of the writing process when it requires pen and ink.
- It's incomplete, but I've printed the first draft because I just can't see it on the screen anymore.
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- I remember being interviewed for a job at Newcastle where I faced this question after my presentation: "Do historians of science have conferences and societies and stuff? 'Cos, I mean, you hear tell of historians of science, but you never actually meet one".
- I can infinite references to Thos Sydenham having said "The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town [or village, or city] than of twenty asses laden with drugs", but nowhere can I find where he actually said anything of the sort. I hate made up quotes.
