Thomas Dixon
@profthomasdixon.bsky.social
Primary (KS2) and maths teacher. ECT. Historian of emotions. Honorary Professor at QMUL. Author. Broadcaster.
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Thomas Dixon
@profthomasdixon.bsky.social
· Nov 16
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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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-...
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-...
Good morning all! First dawn visit to nature reserve in a while.
October 5, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Good morning all! First dawn visit to nature reserve in a while.
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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...
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...
September 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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...
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...
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...
September 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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...
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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A few more terns fishing at Rye Harbour this afternoon. Might go back with snacks and drinks for a few hours tomorrow!
August 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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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A few more photos of swallows and martins dipping in our pool on Spanish holiday last week.
August 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
A few more photos of swallows and martins dipping in our pool on Spanish holiday last week.
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Tern about to dive for a fish, at Rye Harbour today.
August 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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.
August 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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!
August 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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.
August 15, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Tern about to dive for a fish, at Rye Harbour today.
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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. 😎
August 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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. 😎
August 10, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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.
August 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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. 😁
August 5, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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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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...
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July 29, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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
@manchesterup.bsky.social
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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! 😎
July 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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]
July 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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! 😎
July 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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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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!
July 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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!
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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.
Don't buy me anything.
July 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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.
Don't buy me anything.
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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. 😊
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Hours and hours of fun. 😊
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July 12, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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. 😊
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Hours and hours of fun. 😊
bsky.app/profile/darr...
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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?
July 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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...
Good news - there is a book all about it! bbc.co.uk/news/article...
July 2, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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...
Good news - there is a book all about it! bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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!
June 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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!
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!
June 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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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📢 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. 👇
June 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
📢 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. 👇