Project Team
Dr Sally Holloway
Principal Investigator
Sally is a historian of gender, emotions, and material culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain at the University of Warwick. 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, 2025). 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
Mita Vaghela
Director, Oxford Visual Arts
Development Agency (OVADA)
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
Professor Joanne Begiato
Professor of History and Material Culture Studies and Associate Dean for Research, London College of Fashion
Dr Michael Brown
Lecturer in Modern British 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