In these sensitive times, when hurt feelings can start a witch hunt and end careers, it's no surprise that historians have come over all emotional.
There are centres for the study of the history of emotions in London, Berlin and across Australia and the United States. Historians in France and Sweden research the emotions of the Middle Ages and ‘pre-modernity’.
In 2015, the British historian Thomas Dixon re-examined our island story through a misty lens, in his book.