Emotionally Demanding Histories Group

🌱 WE HAVE A WEBSITE🌱 After three years of chatting, lecturing, workshopping, and roundtabling, we are so pleased to finally have an online space for our community! Please go have a look and check out our resources, as well as our first two blog posts. emotionallydemandinghistories.com/about

Extremely proud of our newly doctored @ceaubin over here!!! 💐🌱🍾

2 more days before we kick off #16DaysofActivism 2022! @ceaubin shares how being part of #16Days Blogathon helped to raise awareness of emotionally traumatic histories and its effects on researchers. Read their piece with @emilyrosehay @EDHGEdinburgh here edin.ac/3Auq0LY

@emilyrosehay from @EDHGEdinburgh highlights the importance of public engagement in academia through blogs like #16DaysofActivism. Read hers and @ceaubin piece from 2021 on researching traumatic histories - edin.ac/3Auq0LY @HCAatEdinburgh @WomensHistNet @uoessps

If you'd like to be kept apprised of our activities, as well as get early invitations to contribute to projects or participate in events, please submit your email to join our mailing list through the form on our contact page below: emotionallydemandinghistories.com/contact

Blog proposal submissions remain open! Please do get in contact with us if you have a topic you're interested in writing on.

New school year, new call for blogs!🌿🍃 If you're a historical researcher working on a violent/traumatic topic and would like to write a short reflective piece (c.750-1000 words), we want to publish it! Email us at edhg@ed.ac.uk or through the link below emotionallydemandinghistories.com/contact

@AlexRALee We’ve got lots of resources on our website, including reflective blog posts and articles on things like grounding! The link is in our bio.

#Twitterstorians who deal with upsetting/difficult materials - can you recommend a reading on how to deal with that kind of source material?

🗣️It's New Blog Friday!🗣️ Today we have a wonderful personal reflection by PhD student and mindfulness educator @JJankuliakova on how learning mindfulness techniques increased her resilience while researching war trauma and German Expressionism. emotionallydemandinghistories.com/post/trauma-is…

It's new blog day! Today's post (brought to you by the brilliant @annagops and @AnniHiggins) is on the way we talk to our friends and family about our work, especially when it concerns traumatic topics. emotionallydemandinghistories.com/post/complexit…

Now up on the blog: an excellent new post by Dr. Emily Bartlett (@EmCharBar) and Prof. Julie Anderson of the Living Assessments project (@living_assess), on the toll that traumatic oral history can take on both researchers and their subjects. emotionallydemandinghistories.com/post/finding-o…

We've got a new blog post by the brilliant @DanielEAdamson up on the site today! Daniel examines the role of numbness in traumatic research, and it's well worth a read. emotionallydemandinghistories.com/post/feeling-n…

Hello! Did you attend our online workshop in Nov? Or any other EDHG session, in fact! We'd love if you could DM us a sentence or two about your experience of these, so that we can write about our fab members and our activities since founding the group. It's been over 3 years!🌱

Good morning! 🌱 We have a wonderfully personal and insightful new blog post up today from Dr. Laura Noakes (@lauranoakes) of the Devil's Porridge Museum on her experiences of disability in the heritage sector - give it a read here: emotionallydemandinghistories.com/post/disabilit…

In conjunction with the @EDHGEdinburgh website launch, I wrote a short little reflective blog on how impossible it is to stop and catch your breath when you study something (Nazis) that is constantly in the headlines (trending on Twitter) 🙃 ⬇️ emotionallydemandinghistories.com/post/you-can-t…

I wrote a little blog @EDHGEdinburgh about how I'm cautious with the ways I talk about my work on child homicide online (& offline), and how silly tweets from the archives can help me do my tricky work. I'd love to know what you think! emotionallydemandinghistories.com/post/why-i-don…

@calyxworld Thanks for this Calyx! We’re glad we can be of help :)

This group is not only interesting but a wildly helpful and informative aspect of research - definitely take the time to check out their new website!

We are very grateful to @sgsah @HCAatEdinburgh and @EdinburghUni for funding our group and our website — this wouldn’t have been possible without their support!

🌱 WE HAVE A WEBSITE🌱 After three years of chatting, lecturing, workshopping, and roundtabling, we are so pleased to finally have an online space for our community! Please go have a look and check out our resources, as well as our first two blog posts. emotionallydemandinghistories.com/about

📢CALL FOR BLOGS 📢 We want to hear about your experiences with emotionally demanding historical research, to be posted on our soon-to-be-launched website! We're looking for reflective pieces of c.500-800 words from researchers of all topics and from all backgrounds.

Our DMs and email inbox are still open for blog pitches! Email us at edhg@ed.ac.uk if inspiration strikes 💡