On Sunday March 6, Thomas Dixon and Tiffany Watt-Smith spoke at the ‘Ways with Words’ literary festival, Keswick. Thomas shed new light on the act of weeping, the changing nature of Britishness and the ever-shifting ways in which we express and understand our emotional lives, while Tiffany revealed that no one really felt emotions before 1830 – instead they felt ‘passions’ or ‘accidents of the soul’.

The festival continues until March 13 and you can find out about further events in their programme, available on their website.

Photo from www.keswickplus.co.uk