Weeping Britannia

There is a persistent myth about the British: that we 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 bri...