Well-being Past and Present

Siobhan Hyland is a Researcher and Associate Lecturer at the Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton.Paul Jackson is Professor in the History of Radicalism and Extremism at the Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton.Mark Rothery is Professor in History at the Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton.

• 1. ‘Mindfulness and the mise-en-page’: Medieval women’s well-being and the book of hours, Sue Niebrzydowski, Bangor University, UK2 ‘In this orchard, when you would be comforted’: Using garden spaces for familial intimacy and well-being in late medieval England, Rachel Moss, University of Northampton, UK3 ‘In your well-being is cheife felicity’: Physical, social and emotional health in seventeenth-century family letters, Emma Marshall, University of York4 ‘The only place that can heighten my enjoyment of my friends’: Well-being at Wrest Park in the eighteenth century, Jemima Hubberstey5 ‘Showing feelings’: Exploring and exhibiting elite women’s emotional experiences of the eighteenth-century country house, Ruby Rutter, University of Manchester, UK6 ‘A place to breathe’: Ecotherapy, museums and the Victorian asylum, Emily Bavellas, Northampton Museum and Art Gallery, UK7 Women and welfare: Philanthropy in the Northampton boot and shoe industry in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Kathrina Perry, University of Northampton, UK8 ‘A panacea for wounds’: Tobacco, well-being and resilience during the First World WarMichael Reeve, The Open University, UK9 Notes from Abington Community Library, 1939–2023, Sue Botterill and Siobhan Hyland, Abington Community Library and University of Northampton, UK10 Well-being in mental health nurses' working lives and its impact on nursing shortages: Insights from the early years of the National Health Service, Claire Chatterton, Universities of Chester and Chichester, UK11 ‘Caring archives’: Well-being challenges in an archive of extremism – Lessons and questions from a decade of the Searchlight Archive, Siobhan Hyland and Dan Jones, University of Northampton, UK12 ‘Can heritage change visitor well-being?’ An overview of heritage places research in England, Faye Sayer and Amy Luck, University of Birmingham, UK13 ‘Art cares?’: Creative workshops, social justice and positive psychology, Tamsin Greaves, Nottingham Trent University, UK14 ‘Why we are not all going on a summer holiday?’ An examination of barriers to ethnic minority participation in leisure activities and domestic tourism in the UK, Marcella Daye, University of Northampton, UK