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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Delighted to be taking part in Biddenden Flair - Festival of Literature and the Arts at the end of September. "A Historian's Guide to Anger" Tickets biddendenflair.co.uk/events/bidde...

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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/...

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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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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We got a £400 refund last time which was not bad! 4th evening in a row now with no water. Settling into a nice daily rhythm now. 😭

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Yep! Seems like it will just be the new normal now if it’s hot. 🤷‍♂️

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

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. 😊

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

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. 😊

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Yes that’s fine. Happy to try to answer. I am a primary teacher now (including maths) and have taught secondary maths as part of my training. 😎

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Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

#Sunset between Åsgårdstrand and Horten, Norway ❄️🇳🇴

Bus stop and lamp-post with sunset in deepening blue skies and snowy fields behind

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Tyneside morning, 1950, photo by Harry Morrison.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

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

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

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...

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Thank you. 🙏. It is a very pleasing shot and I find it quite serene too.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

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. 😎

Street sign “Rue Michelet” Historien Francais. 1797-1874

The History of Emotions: A very short introduction. By Thomas Dixon

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

That’s great to hear. Thank you 🙏

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Some bird shots from earlier in the year.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

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. 😁

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Joel Morley @joelmorley.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

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

Front cover of book; civilian men queuing to become soldiers

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

🙏Thank you for your response. I don’t know if I am autistic or not but online tests and reading around the subject (and family connections) make me think I probably am. I love that Eliot quote and had never made the connection before.

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Yes. We are all different. Autistic people don’t have a monopoly on getting overloaded. I think that shift happens in autistic experiences too though? Sensory overstimulation leads to mental and physical shutdown / exhaustion. I might be misunderstanding you though. 😇

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Thank you 🙏. Yes definitely a rollercoaster. 🎢 Proper break …plus planning … yes! Whole new year group and curriculum to prepare for. Looking forward to it. 😎

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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! 😎

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

And it occurs to me that this description is perhaps evocative of the autistic experience of hypersensitivity to sensory stimuli, and the resulting feeling of emotional overwhelm. I wonder if others have made this connection? [2/2]

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

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]

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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!

pen drawing of a man in a neat suit looking very clever with his large forehead, pen in hand, and slightly hautain expression. The text reads "It's best when the reader sees the workings of the brain but not the face"

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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

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.

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DamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

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...

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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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?

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Thank you! Would make a nice epitaph. "Here lies Thomas Dixon. He owned tears". 😇

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

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...

Cover of Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Very proud of this - created for Year 6 this week - as part of our focus on Magritte in Art this term. It's an automatic Magritte-style painting generator. At the touch of a button it gives you 3 motifs and a suggested title!

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Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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ssmemotions.bsky.social @ssmemotions.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

📢 Check out the programme of the Second Conference of the Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions, which will take place in St Andrews on 26-27 June 2025. 👇

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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Guess what!? My biography of Henri Bergson will be available in paperback NEXT WEEK (June 19th)! John Banville called it "the most intellectually stimulating book I read this year" and the NYT called it "lively and deft". Get your copy here (or don't I'm not a cop): linktr.ee/eherring

Herald of a Restless World How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People

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Peps @pepsmccrea.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Distractions consume more learning time than we tend to think. Here's the lowdown: ↓

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Thierry St-Laurent Dion @tstld.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Sketch of a crow Pastel and acrylic 5x7 #art #birds #nature #illustration

Sketch of a crow made with pastel and acrylic on toned paper.

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