Professor Thomas Dixon is a historian of philosophy, science, medicine, and religion, with particular expertise in the history of emotions.  He is Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, University of London, and Director of the UK’s first Centre for the History of the Emotions.  He edits and contributes to the Centre’s popular blog: emotionsblog.

His Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction (2008) was awarded the Dingle Prize for the best book on the history of science accessible to a wide readership, and he presented The End of God? A Horizon Guide to Science and Religion on BBC Four. 

More recently Thomas has been an academic consultant and contributor to a three-part BBC Two series, Ian Hislop’s Stiff Upper Lip – An Emotional History of Britain, as well as writing and presenting a Radio 3 Sunday Feature documentary on the cultural history of weeping.  His book Weeping Britannia: Portrait of a Nation in Tears was published by Oxford University Press to comprehensive review coverage.