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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finally done and handed over at Reaktion. Out next year.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

SHE 2027. Vienna. CFP. Emotions in Adversity.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Dose no. 8. The "mysterious" bug going around really ain't a mystery.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

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!

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It's been a while, but I reman fond of the writing process when it requires pen and ink.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

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

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This arrived. Strong recommend from me. Historians of emotion, childhood, pain and medicine take note.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It is definitely not too early to get excited about this forthcoming title.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

forgive me, but I feel milestones still need to be marked

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

this has to be among the worst campaign slogans I've ever seen and I'm old enough to remember 'chaos with Ed'.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Age 6, the whole class was asked to name types of squirrel. 25 kids. After red, grey and flying the class was floundering. I said black. Teacher told me I was ridiculous. I said I'd seen one. Was punished for answering back. The injustice lives with me, more than 40 years later.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

From the CBC. I should point out that you don't steal eggs; you poach them.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

the vernissage for this was 8 years ago. Safe to say that if we did it again we would leave the dates open-ended.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

There will be a busy couple of days in Florence next month. A masterclass on the history of emotions and experience and a research seminar at EUI, and another research seminar courtesy of MEEM at the University of Florence.

Poster advertising "History as it Actually Seemed: Theorizing Lived Experience" by Rob Boddice

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Heavy going but white Christmas is lined up

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

windchill -18 and ice over everything, but Mount Royal still accessible courtesy of Swedish engineering on my feet. #running

view of Montreal, just after sunrise, freezing

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

out to catch the Montreal dawn. Windchill -16. Pretty gorgeous running.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Last run in the dark for a while. To Montreal tomorrow.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

yesterday, giving a keynote at the Contexts of Pain symposium here in Tampere. The rub: trying to give chronic pain a reason.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

hmm, not convinced about some of this. Gown and mortar board not untypical for surgeons. And it also looks like John Freke. And it also makes much more sense that it is Freke, given context, setting and personal association.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

it really doesn't, especially if you're only interested in step count. And you can get watch faces where you can choose to put the step count right under the time

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

On the big stage for the faculty 75th anniversary seminar.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Friday, The History of Experience, online, Mexico

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I dunno, I would have said "sparkling right". Definitely right though. Like, waaay right.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Next week I'm giving 1 of 4 keynote talks for my faculty's 75th anniversary event, which immediately precedes the Christmas Party. So, I'm doing uncomfortable entanglements btw history and neuroscience, told through Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Bound to be a hit.

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

New article, for those of a history of emotions, experience, and medical science persuasion. "Sweet Sensation: Humanity, Experimental Medicine and the Philadelphia Animal Cruelty Trial of 1914" brill.com/view/journal...

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Tomorrow, 1pm (Helsinki), 11 am (London), I'll be offering a speculative history of the placebo effect, the opening lecture of a series on embodied knowledge. Register and tune in, if that's your jam. elbowresearch.com/elbow-talks/

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

The History of Emotions, second edition, has arrived! Update your syllabi!

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 14/01/2024

The second edition of The History of Emotions (ManchesterUP) will be published on Feb 13. It's a massive overhaul -- an attempt to continue to do justice to our fast-moving field. This task is only going to get more difficult. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152617117...

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

I'm honoured to have been invited to give the Veikko Litzen lecture this year, on December 1. If you happen to be in Finland and can make it to Turku, I think you are welcome to register

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

Quick advertisement for the HEX Digital Handbook of the History of Experience, which I edit with a group of other HEX people (HEXagons?). We publish regularly, invite submissions, and just formed a totally awesome editorial board. Take a look around. sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/

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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS @boddice.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

People of a linguistic bent who "insist" that a word can only mean one thing:

esoteric exchange from twitter about lived experience

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