Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears by Thomas Dixon
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Overview: There is a persistent myth about the British: that they are a nation of stoics, with stiff upper lips, repressed emotions, and inactive lachrymal glands. Weeping Britannia–the first history of crying in Britain–comprehensively debunks this myth.
Far from being a persistent element in the “national character”, the notion of the British stiff upper lip was in fact the product of a relatively brief and militaristic period of the nation’s past, from about 1870 to 1945. In earlier times we were a nation of proficient, sometimes virtuosic moral weepers. To illustrate this perhaps surprising fact, Thomas Dixon charts six centuries of weeping Britons, and theories about them, from the medieval mystic Margery Kempe in the early fifteenth century, to Paul Gascoigne’s famous tears in the semi-finals of the 1990 World Cup. In between, the book includes the tears of some of the most influential figures in British history, from Oliver Cromwell to Margaret Thatcher (not forgetting George III, Queen Victoria, Charles Darwin, and Winston Churchill along the way).
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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