Hello blue sky people! About me…. I wrote this book just before I left my job as a history professor last year to retrain as a school teacher. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction a book by Thomas (Queen Mary University of London) Dixon.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbu...

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I enjoyed hearing Ben and Alice's take on emotions and the British stiff upper lip on their podcast "Here for the History" - with a generous mention of my work too 🙏 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Here For The History - Stiff Upper Lip - Do Brits have emotions? - BBC Sounds

Exploring the stereotype that Brits don’t show their emotions.

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Third evening in a row with no running water here. Thankfully I got all my watercolour painting done before lunch.

Always lovely to get these echoes of my former life in the midst of a busy week of Y4 teaching. This time a Chinese translation of my Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction. 😊

Always lovely to get these echoes of my former life in the midst of a busy week of Y4 teaching. This time a Chinese translation of my Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction. 😊

#Sunset between Åsgårdstrand and Horten, Norway ❄️🇳🇴

Tyneside morning, 1950, photo by Harry Morrison.

Great to be back at Elmley NNR.

Good morning all! First dawn visit to nature reserve in a while.

Oh wow - this is nice to see on a Saturday morning after my first, exhausting week as a Y4 teacher! My VSI in Japanese with an awesome cover, featuring my favourite (17th-C) image for teaching the difference between passions and emotions! www.hakusuisha.co.jp/book/b665575...

Oh wow - this is nice to see on a Saturday morning after my first, exhausting week as a Y4 teacher! My VSI in Japanese with an awesome cover, featuring my favourite (17th-C) image for teaching the difference between passions and emotions! www.hakusuisha.co.jp/book/b665575...

A few more terns fishing at Rye Harbour this afternoon. Might go back with snacks and drinks for a few hours tomorrow!

A few more photos of swallows and martins dipping in our pool on Spanish holiday last week.

Tern about to dive for a fish, at Rye Harbour today.

A few more photos of swallows and martins dipping in our pool on Spanish holiday last week.

A few more terns fishing at Rye Harbour this afternoon. Might go back with snacks and drinks for a few hours tomorrow!

Tern about to dive for a fish, at Rye Harbour today.

The emotional historiography of the French Revolution 🇫🇷 - esp. Carlyle vs Michelet - ⚔️ was one of my favourite topics to teach in my old job…. so it’s nice to find myself staying here. 😎

The emotional historiography of the French Revolution 🇫🇷 - esp. Carlyle vs Michelet - ⚔️ was one of my favourite topics to teach in my old job…. so it’s nice to find myself staying here. 😎

Some bird shots from earlier in the year.

On holiday in Spain. Every evening swallows dip into the pool for a cooling drink. Trying to get photos is hard as they are very fast! Will post better shots if I get some. 😁

Delighted to see that my book Joining Up is published today, a mere 11 years after I started writing it. You can read it for free here: doi.org/10.7765/9781... @manchesterup.bsky.social

Just completed my first year as a teacher. Year 6… so dominated by SATs. I knew it would be hard work - and emotionally challenging- and it was! Topped off by planning and running the leavers’ service. 😭😊. Am in day 3 of recovery plan. Sofa. Cups of tea. Cricket on TV. In September - Year 4! 😎

Just thinking about that famous Eliot quote from Middlemarch: ""If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." [1/2]

Just completed my first year as a teacher. Year 6… so dominated by SATs. I knew it would be hard work - and emotionally challenging- and it was! Topped off by planning and running the leavers’ service. 😭😊. Am in day 3 of recovery plan. Sofa. Cups of tea. Cricket on TV. In September - Year 4! 😎

WHOA! Open access publication of a lot of the drawings from Johan Huizinga! Some beautiful historical imagination as well as this "It's best when the reader sees the workings of the brain but not the face" (as the owner of a very expressive face: yup) books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/... #HoeraHuizing!

A kid gave me a card this year that said I'd made them like history. Made my week. Honestly if you want to make a teacher happy just do a nice card. Don't buy me anything.

I adored this kind of making when I was a child. My kids adored this kind of making when they were young. Hours and hours of fun. 😊 bsky.app/profile/darr...

Darrell Wakelam@darrellwakelam.bsky.social · last yr.

Are you looking for ways to keep your kids busy over the Summer holidays? My bestselling book 'Art Shaped' currently has 23% off on Amazon (UK), that's almost a quarter of the ideas FREE 😮 . . . you can find it here . . . www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Shaped-s...

when Italian PM Vittorio Orlando burst into tears during a meeting at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 his fellow statesmen were apparently rather embarrassed and discombobulated. Is there no specific diplomatic protocol for tears, I wonder?

I expect you're wondering whether other leading politicians have shed tears in the House of Commons before - and more generally about the history of crying in British culture, and what it means. Good news - there is a book all about it! bbc.co.uk/news/article...