Project Team

Dr Sally Holloway

Principal Investigator

Sally is a historian of gender, emotions, and material culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain at Oxford Brookes University, where she has been a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow since 2017. She is the author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions and Material Culture (Oxford, 2019), and co-editor of Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions through History (Oxford, 2018) and A Cultural History of Love in the Age of Enlightenment (Bloomsbury, 2024). With Ute Frevert and Katie Barclay, she co-edits the Oxford University Press series ‘Emotions in History’.

Project Partners

Deborah Alma

Founder, The Poetry Pharmacy

Jill Mueller

Artist exploring health, the body, the natural world, and what it means to be human

Julie Light

Artist focusing on health, disease, embodiment and identity

Rebecca Salvesen

Wellbeing Worker, Oxfordshire Mind

Project Support & Advisory Board

Laura Baldock

Public Engagement Officer,
Oxford Brookes University

Professor Joanne Begiato

Professor of History and Associate Dean for Research, London College of Fashion

Dr Michael Brown

Lecturer in History,
Lancaster University

Dr Carolyn Day

Associate Professor in History,
Furman University

Professor Karen Harvey

Professor of Cultural History,
University of Birmingham

Dr Laura King

Associate Professor in Modern British History, University of Leeds