Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS

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Feeling Dis-ease in Modern History This book explores experiences of illness, broadly construed. It encompasses the emotional and sensory disruptions that attend disease, injury, mental illness o…

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I did a pilot for it as a single chapter of Knowing Pain. But otherwise, no. I held it all back for the book. Hopefully out early next year.

thanks for the heads up

PSA.

Can you see circles or rectangles? And does the answer depend on where you grew up? | Anil Seth We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that, says cognitive and computational neuroscience professor Anil Seth

"How things seem is not how they are" -- more reasons to pursue the history of experience. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

congratulations!

nailed it

This has another two-weeks free-to-download facility. Go get it!

Cambridge Elements (20-30k)

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.

I rather enjoyed the Magic Whip. And considering the live appeal, they'd have to be ruled into the reckoning. Honestly, from my distant vantage I wasn't aware Suede were still doing anything. My algorithm keeps serving me Kula Shaker and Supergrass.

Blur (with bonus of consistent line-up)? The last two albums were better in most respects than the hyped stuff from pre-95.

Elon Musk allegedly took large amounts of drugs including ketamine while advising Trump – report Doge head was at times dosing himself daily, along with ecstasy and psychedelic mushroom use, according to NYT

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.

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

I made it look like this very quickly in picture editor. It's mostly legible, I think. You could do it to the full size copy.

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".

at least you did find it. I've given up on Sydenham. I can't find a single reference to it that cites a source, and the one cited on Wikipedia was incorrect, so I deleted it. I found a cluster of similar quotes from around 1930 that suggest this date as possible origin point.

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.

While we're celebrating #icms2025, check out our forthcoming title from the #MMLC series ⬇️

'SAGA EMOTIONS' ed. by @garethlloydevans.bsky.social, @profcarolyne.bsky.social & Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir

Coming to manchesterhive.com in June!

#academicsky @kzooicms.bsky.social

Milestone for this book. Thanks to all who have engaged. Timely reminder that there is a *new* edition, extensively revised.

Welcome!

Do I know any subscribers to the New Scientist who can help me out by retrieving an article from 2023?

Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method

New publication claxon: Lauren Mancia on Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method, in the Cambridge Elements Series on Histories of Emotions and the Senses. This is *free* to download till May 19. Go get it!
www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Just finished @boddice.bsky.social and Mark Smith's excellent Emotion, Sense, Experience. Wonderfully illuminates how densely collapsed concepts of emotions are in historiography & neuroscience. Powerfully indicates how we might unpack the vast expanses of meaning in human affective experience.

Cheers for this.