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Lyndsey Stonebridge
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Writer, professor, botherer.

'We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love & Disobedience', 2024.

'Old Women: A History of Our Future', coming 2027.

https://lyndseystonebridge.com/

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Lyndsey Stonebridge FBA FEA is an English scholar and professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham. Her work relates to refugee studies, human rights, and the effects of violence on the mind in the 20th and 21st centuries. She is also a regular radio and media commentator, writing for publications such as The New Statesman, Prospect Magazine, and New Humanist. .. more

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 18h
Discovering that Muriel Spark adopted Patricia Highsmith's cat, Spider, is all I needed to make a dull day better.
drjamesbailey.bsky.social James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social · 23d
Some trivia: The cat Spark’s holding on the cover was named Spider; she’d adopted him from Patricia Highsmith. Spider was a fan of fireworks - he found that their booms tended to stun the nearby lizards, making them easy for him to hunt down and kill. I imagine Spark admired this display of cunning…
Muriel Spark, holding a black cat and smiling at the camera Patricia Highsmith, holding the same black cat, and smiling at the camera

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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 1d
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 1d
Every day, 137 women and girls are killed by intimate partners or family members internationally - one death every 10 minutes, according to the UN, who released their annual femicide report today.
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6884469
One woman or girl killed every ten minutes by intimate partners or family members, UN says
Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, but according to the UN the number of women and girls killed intentionally remains unchanged.
jrnl.ie

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Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health @uobphenomenal.bsky.social · 2d
📣Announcing our third seminar in the series, titled "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health"!

Please join us for a wonderful day discussing language, affect and experience!

See schedule and registration details here:

birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...
Network Seminar: "Metaphorical Framings of Emotions in Mental Health", January 14th, Birmingham and Online
Emotions are important drivers of human behaviour. They help shape our goals and desires and endow our lives with meaning. Insights into emo...
birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 5d
We will struggle to explain to future generations how something so transparent and stupid was able to take place youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...

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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 5d
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 6d
Hugely looking forward to this!
ukstaiger.bsky.social Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · 6d
With the extraordinary @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social and Thomas Meyer, authors of two most compelling recent biographies.

www.goethe.de/ins/es/de/st...

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Uta Staiger @ukstaiger.bsky.social · 6d
With the extraordinary @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social and Thomas Meyer, authors of two most compelling recent biographies.

www.goethe.de/ins/es/de/st...

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 8d
The cyber attack itself was an assault on our capacity to think, learn, and establish the historical truth. Small wonder others thought it worth targeting. What does it say about us that we didn't seem to really care?

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 8d
At the very moment when the nation's history- its archive - is so politically vital, the nation is blithely indifferent to the fate of the institution which literally holds these things in custody, and those who work in it.
hetanshah.bsky.social Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8d
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 8d
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 9d
Very much looking forward to talking Arendt in Barcelona - soon!

www.ucl.ac.uk/european-ins...
Barcelona Hannah Arendt Days 2025
Multidisciplinary event curated by UCL European Institute director Dr Uta Staiger for Goethe-Institute Barcelona in collaboration with local academic and cultural partners
www.ucl.ac.uk

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Nando Sigona @nandosigona.bsky.social · 9d
Among the many things wrong with Labour’s immigration strategy, this stands out: to “fight” a few thousand so-called illegal migrants, Shabana Mahmood is willing to make life hell for hundreds of thousands of people who are legally in the UK.
🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...
Labour’s plan for migrants to ‘earn’ permanent residency turns belonging into an endless exam
In this hierarchical system, migrants are kept on extended probation and judged by standards never applied to British nationals.
theconversation.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 11d
Marianne Faithful and not Trump this time last year....😥

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 11d
Too right she's "somewhat tetchy." I'd be bloody furious if I'd skipped the grind only for the Daily Mail to come at me with their trademark misogyn-grey in my final days.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 11d
Isn't it awful. Conor Gearty and Rachel Cooke in the same year. Too bloody soon, and just when we need them most.

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Benjamin Myers @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social · 11d
Apologies for the Daily Mail link, but for those of us who are fans of The Incredible String Band, this is pretty wild.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
What REALLY happened to troubled wildchild Licorice McKechnie?
Licorice McKechnie's mesmerising performance with The Incredible String Band at the most celebrated concert of the decade turned her into a sixties icon
www.dailymail.co.uk

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 11d
Very sad indeed to hear about the death of Rachel Cooke. Her focus, attention, wit and worldliness were what we needed - what we need - in our frenetic over-mediated world.

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 13d
And many of us were those little girls. Over and over again.

I can't remember a moment from my youth when I didn't find older men creepy and would guard myself against them.

The first time I caught an older man leering at my then 13 y-o daughter, I yelled in his face: I SAW YOU! I SAW YOU!
davidandress.bsky.social Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 13d
Like, if you actually listen to the lyrics of some of the biggest hits of the sixties, they're about grown men hitting on "little girls", over & over again...

And sometimes threatening to kill them...
jayzedbee.bsky.social Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 13d
You see people say this type of thing sometimes and tbh i think its symptomatic of the fact that if you grew up in the 90s-00s, adults going out with 16 year olds was way way more socially accepted

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 13d
Like, if you actually listen to the lyrics of some of the biggest hits of the sixties, they're about grown men hitting on "little girls", over & over again...

And sometimes threatening to kill them...
jayzedbee.bsky.social Jay Zedbee @jayzedbee.bsky.social · 13d
You see people say this type of thing sometimes and tbh i think its symptomatic of the fact that if you grew up in the 90s-00s, adults going out with 16 year olds was way way more socially accepted
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It’s monsters all the way down.

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 14d
JOB
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge

[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]

www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
College Lectureship and Fellowship in Modern History and Politics
Applications are invited for appointment to a College Lectureship in Modern History and Politics, together with a Fellowship, tenable for five years in the first instance, with the possibility of…
www.trin.cam.ac.uk

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 14d
Great interview with my fellow Arendt scholar, and friend, Mariam Martinez Bascunan about her new book on the necessity, and shrinkage, of the common world.

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Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán: «La posverdad es el fin del mundo común» | Ethic
La politóloga Máriam Martínez-Bascuñán ahonda sobre su libro 'El fin del mundo común. Hannah Arendt y la posverdad'.
ethic.es

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 15d
Thank you! And thanks to for the excellent reference.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 15d
Last year I came across this wonderful study of the unnamed and forgotten women in the Eichmann trial. There's an account of a typist who slept in a cot in her office on top of the testimonies she had typed up, to protect them. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Behind the scenes: women in the Eichmann trial
The trial of the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann (1961), a significant event in the Holocaust commemoration history, was organised and managed by men. The three judges, the prosecutors, and the defenc...
www.tandfonline.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 15d
Thank you!

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 15d
I could add that there were so many women writers and journalists at Nuremberg because the men were not there? Some were still in the East, others thought it unimportant, a sideshow, not worthy of editorial attention.

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-jud...
The Judicial Imagination
The Judicial Imagination
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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 15d
No women ever commented on, or took part in, Nuremberg then? No women ever discussed or thought about the problem of Nazi evil and its banality? No Rebecca West, Martha Gellhorn, no Janet Flanner, no Hannah Arendt? Just an all-boys affair for an all boys evil.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
Nuremberg review – Russell Crowe’s Göring v Rami Malek’s psychiatrist in swish yet glib courtroom showdown
Crowe and Malek are hugely watchable but this ultimately fails to deliver an authentic version of events
www.theguardian.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 17d
Thank you ! And Arendt is definitely worth spending your time with.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 18d
Thank you! That really is too kind, but yes, yes, to brilliant women across the decades.