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The meaning of happiness

What is happiness? Tiffany Watt Smith charts how its definition has changed over time, from chance emotion to something that can be measured and controlled.

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  • Georg Winter. Photograph by J. C. Schaarwächter.
  • Joseph Arnold. Pen drawing by C.J.W. Winter, 1849.
  • Joseph Arnold. Pen drawing by C.J.W. Winter, 1849.
  • Three doctors in close discussion, their patient being nursed in the next room. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Winter, 1869, after T. Rowlandson.
  • Men sitting around a candle-lit table, talking about politics, smoking and drinking. Lithograph by C.J.W. Winter after G.M. Woodward.
  • A man and a woman face one another on the dance floor as people behind look on with disapproving faces. Lithograph by C.J.W. Winter.
  • Saint George wearing armour and holding the palm of victory is standing on the dragon; quatrefoil below. Colour lithograph by C.J.W. Winter, ca. 1880.
  • A sailor, proposed as a member of a society in which masks are worn at meetings, makes enquiries to its chairman using nautical vocabulary. Lithograph by C.J.W. Winter after G.M. Woodward.
  • Hamilton, Ontario: the steam locomotive 'George Stephenson' with representatives of the Great Western Railway of Canada. Wood engraving, 1860.
  • A pedlar of jewelry reads from a sheet, ladies inspect his wares, and a shepherd looks delighted. Engraving by S. Davenport after J. Holmes after C.R. Leslie.
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