This article charts the actions of tomb raiders despite punishment for such crimes. Tomb raiders for mummies or other relics was not confined to the modern period, as Sean Lafferty outlines in Ad sanctitatem mortuorum: tomb raiders, body snatchers and relic hunters in late antiquity. Gabriel Moshenska charts the unrolling of mummies in nineteenth-century Britain, a popular spectacle which is also covered by Beverley Rogers in her chapter, Unwrapping the Past: Egyptian Mummies on Show from Popular exhibitions, science and showmanship, 1840-1910. 7-22) the first unrolling of a mummy took place in 1698.

Oxford University Press has launched a monograph series Emotions in History, one of the books is entitled, Learning how to feel: Children’s Literature and Emotional Socialization, 1870-1970, which covers such feelings as trust, compassion, empathy, fear and piety, all charted through a particular literary character.Įxpanding further on emotions, and combining it with piety, there is a special issue of German History entitled Feeling and Faith-Religious Emotions in German History, covering early German pietism, the expected behaviour of evangelists in Wilhelmine Germany, as well as the feminization of piety in interwar Germany.Īccording to John Johnston in Lost in time and space: Unrolling Egypt’s ancient dead (Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, 2013, p.

The title, Crying in the colonies: The bellmen of early Australia, did not cover the emotional sensibility of the colonists but was a discussion on the use of the town crier, who made announcements, advertised sales, rallied people to political meetings, encouraged locals to attend events and performances as well as announcing the news of the day.

Male tears represented an embarrassing loss of self-control and “a shameful lapse into plebeian, even animal, behaviour”. The article looks at the emotions of men of the Elizabethan and Stuart period across the social, political and religious spectrum. The first article that caught my attention was, ‘Jesus Wept’ But Did the Englishman? Masculinity and Emotion in Early Modern England. Joy in that there is such a range of material, and tribulation in the amount! As an indication of the range of material, I’ll highlight a snapshot of articles that I have come across recently.

One of the joys, and tribulations, of working on BBIH is the amount of material that comes across my desk (or indeed desktop).

German mummies covered in gold