A History of Intimate Relationships in Scotland: Emotion and Family among the Lower Orders, 1661-1830

该项目将对1661年至1830年间苏格兰下层阶级之间的亲密关系进行全面而新颖的分析，填补欧洲/英语国家对穷人情感生活研究的空白。它将使用一种创新的方法，在一群没有离开传统“感觉”来源(如信件和日记)的群体中获取情感，以创建他们的情感和家庭世界的图景。其新颖的方法将为在其他情况下进行类似的工作提供一个模式，而它对这一群体如何组建家庭以及在这个过程中使用情感的洞察将提供历史数据，这些数据可以为社会政策提供参考，并加强澳大利亚的社会和经济结构。

This project will provide a comprehensive and novel analysis of intimate relationships amongst the Scottish lower orders between 1661 and 1830, filling a gap in the European/Anglophone research on the emotional lives of the poor. It will use an innovative methodology to access emotions amongst a group who did not leave traditional 'feeling' sources, such as letters and diaries, to create a picture of their emotional and familial world. Its novel methodology will supply a model for doing similar work in other contexts, while its insights into how this group formed families, and used emotions in that process, will provide historical data that can inform social policy and strengthen Australia's social and economic fabric.