Queen Mary University of London is Home to the History of Emotion Centre, a center dedicated to a growing subfield of history that explores the intersections of social and cultural history and the history of science and medicine. Historians of emotions explore a number of questions, such as: What social and linguistic forces have shaped how people categorize their emotions throughout history? And, how have the physical expressions of emotions, such as yawns, screams, and smiles, changed over time? On the History of Emotion Centre's interdisciplinary blog, visitors can learn more about the history of emotions via scholarly and popular articles, podcasts, and more. For example, in one recent post about the history of anger, Kirk Essary explores the different words used to describe anger-like feelings in early languages, and how many of these words describe emotions that differ from our contemporary understandings of anger. Meanwhile, in a series titled Normativity November, Sarah Chaney, David Saunders, and Stacy Hacker each explore normality throughout history from different perspectives.
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