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Dear colleagues, I thought this upcoming Professorial Lecture at the University of Sussex would be of interest to subscribers to this list: Wednesday 1 June 18:30 until 20:30 Chowen Lecture Theatre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex BN1 9PX Professorial Lecture: David Hendy, Professor of Media and Communications The Emotional Life of the Early BBC Professor Hendy has been commissioned to write a new official history of the BBC for its Centenary in 2022. He wants to begin this task by asking a fundamental question about the Corporation's origins. Might the BBC be understood as the creation of a group of men and women driven less by a clear vision of broadcasting policy than by a complex set of private moods and emotions? When it began in 1922, these first broadcasters represented a generation shaped by the experience of the Great War - and all the psychic ripples in its aftermath. They brought to their new workplace a rich brew of personal prejudices, psychic wounds, and cultural anxieties. In so doing they made their new employer in their own image - a place, as one insider put it, that felt like 'one third boarding school, one-third Chelsea party, one-third crusade' - a 'safe port in a stormy sea'. Here was, in other words, a distinctive 'emotional community' - a unique working atmosphere that, by the eve of the Second World War, had helped make the BBC the iconic cultural institution that it was. In trying to reconstruct the 'emotional life' of the Corporation's pioneering personalities, this lecture suggests a focus on feelings might be fundamental to our broader understanding of how British broadcasting discovered its character and purpose in the twentieth century. Chowen Lecture Theatre Brighton and Sussex Medical School University of Sussex Campus Brighton BN1 9PX More details here: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/34627 Thanks, Ross Ross MacFarlane Research Engagement Officer Wellcome Library Wellcome Trust Gibbs Building 215 Euston Road London NW1 2BE, UK T +44 (0)20 7611 7340 F +44 (0)20 7611 8369 E [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://wellcomelibrary.org<http://wellcomelibrary.org/> The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation dedicated to improving health. We support bright minds in science, the humanities and the social sciences, as well as education, public engagement and the application of research to medicine. Our investment portfolio gives us the independence to support such transformative work as the sequencing and understanding of the human genome, research that established front-line drugs for malaria, and Wellcome Collection, our free venue for the incurably curious that explores medicine, life and art. The Wellcome Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales, no. 210183. Its sole trustee is The Wellcome Trust Limited, a company registered in England and Wales, no. 2711000 (whose registered office is at 215 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK). Follow the Wellcome Library on Twitter and Facebook <http://twitter.com/wellcomelibrary> <https://www.facebook.com/pages/Wellcome-Library/129807718846> This message has been scanned for viruses by Websense Hosted Email Security - www.websense.com The HISTORY OF EMOTIONS email list is run by the Queen Mary Centre for the History of the Emotions http://www.qmul.ac.uk/emotions The Centre also hosts the History of Emotions Blog http://emotionsblog.history.qmul.ac.uk/ To modify your subscription to this list, or to unsubscribe, go to: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/historyofemotions