Dr Thomas Dixon appeared twice recently on BBC Radio 4 to discuss his research on the history of tears and emotions. He spoke at the conclusion of a special edition of The Film Programme marking the 70th anniversary of Brief Encounter. Then, on All in the Mind, he discussed the history and science of tears and health with Claudia Hammond, including a recent Mind campaign about crying and anxiety.

Thomas’s book Weeping Britannia was selected as one of the Guardian’s best history books of 2015, while in the Times Literary Supplement‘s Books of the Year for 2015 it was nominated by both Professor Sir Richard Evans (Cambridge) and Professor Ritchie Robertson (Oxford). In the Spectator round-up of the best books of the year, Weeping Britannia was one of the choices of Thomas W. Hodgkinson.