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

该项目将提供一个全面的和新颖的分析之间的亲密关系的苏格兰较低的订单1661年和1830年，填补了欧洲/英语研究穷人的情感生活的空白。它将使用一种创新的方法来访问一个没有留下传统“感觉”来源（如信件和日记）的群体的情感，以创建他们的情感和家庭世界的图片。其新颖的方法将为在其他情况下开展类似工作提供一个模式，而其对这一群体如何组建家庭以及在这一过程中如何使用情感的见解将提供历史数据，可以为社会政策提供信息，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.