Researching emotions in BBIH

We are happy to share a new BBIH online reading list, which offers 521 recent publications focusing on the history of emotions in Britain, Ireland and the British empire and the Commonwealth.

The list takes as its starting point the keyword Emotions and mental states, which is a broad subject category in BBIH’s hierarchical subject tree.

BBIH’s subject tree offers a powerful way of searching by subject because it uses terminology systematically applied to records by BBIH’s editors: your results will not depend on the appearance of words in titles or in keywords provided by authors. You can learn more about the subject tree here.

The books, articles, book chapters and theses in this list were published between 2020 and 2023, but in total, BBIH holds the details of over 2,200 publications about the history of emotions. Our coverage in this growing area of historical research is ongoing, and further publications will be added in future updates of the Bibliography.