Tiffany Watt Smith’s Book of Human Emotions (Profile Books, 2015), published earlier this month, continues to generate huge interest.

Previously the book was extracted in the Guardian.

Tiffany has an article in the current New Scientist – “Buzzwords: How Language Creates Your Emotions” – a short extract is available online.

She has also been interviewed by Jane Garvey on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour about the history of emotions and her new book.

Congratulations to Tiffany for all this great coverage for her beautifully written and thought-provoking book!

A feature by Dr Tiffany Watt Smith of the QMUL Centre for the History of the Emotions is published in the ‘Review’ section of today’s Guardian, introducing readers to a handful of the dozens of emotions she surveys in The Book of Human Emotion: An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust (Profile/Wellcome, 2015).

Today sees the publication of Thomas Dixon’s new book Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears (Oxford University Press), which charts the ebb and flow of British tears from the late medieval period to the present, and traces the origins of the idea of the British ‘stiff upper lip’.

You can read more about the book in a blog post by Thomas Dixon on the History of Emotions Blog, and download the Introduction via the OUP website.