The practice and ethics of the history of emotions

This chapter explores the practice and ethics of researching in the history of emotions, focusing on the field as one built on relationships between researchers, between the researcher and dead, and between historians and society. It begins with an exploration of interdisciplinary research and how it requires us to be generous and embracing of other approaches to scholarship, before continuing with a discussion of behaving ethically as a historian of emotion. Finally, it looks at the emotions of the historian, asking how they may act as a critical tool in research practice.