{"id":809,"date":"2016-03-08T10:19:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T10:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/?p=809"},"modified":"2016-03-08T16:39:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:39:24","slug":"ways-with-words-literary-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/uncategorized\/ways-with-words-literary-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Ways with Words&#8217; Literary Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday March 6,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.qmul.ac.uk\/staff\/profile\/4525-dr-thomas-dixon\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Dixon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sed.qmul.ac.uk\/staff\/wattsmitht.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tiffany Watt-Smith<\/a> spoke at the &#8216;Ways with Words&#8217; literary festival, Keswick. Thomas shed new light on the act of weeping, the changing nature of Britishness and the ever-shifting ways in which we express and understand our emotional lives, while Tiffany revealed that no one really felt emotions before 1830 &#8211; instead they felt &#8216;passions&#8217; or &#8216;accidents of the soul&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The festival continues until March 13\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wayswithwords.co.uk\/festivals\/words-by-the-water--the-lake-district-23\" target=\"_blank\">you can find out about further events in their programme, available on their website.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_810\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-810\" class=\"wp-image-810\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/keswick-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of Keswick\" width=\"497\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/keswick-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/03\/keswick.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from www.keswickplus.co.uk<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday March 6, Thomas Dixon and Tiffany Watt-Smith spoke at the &#8216;Ways with Words&#8217; literary festival, Keswick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/emotions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}