Thomas Dixon

Thomas Dixon is a Chartered Certified Accountant, a Chartered Management Accountant and a Chartered Secretary. He is a senior partner in the firm of Thomas R Dixon & Company, a successful accountancy practice in Newcastle upon Tyne, which has been going for 40 years. He was for some time a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University and also, was Managing Director of Administration Limited, a management consultancy company which has conducted many...

Emotions are complex mental states that resist reduction. They are visceral reactions but also beliefs about the world. They are spontaneous outbursts but also culturally learned performances. And just as our emotions in any given moment display this complex structure, so their history is plural rather than singular. The history of emotions is where the history of ideas meets the history of the body, and where the history of subjectivity meets social...

Birth of a nation: Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection to major historical events, like the development of the Civil War itself, Lincoln's assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan. Intolerance: Four...