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Tiffany Jenkins
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Author, Keeping Their Marbles (OUP)| presenter, The History of Secrecy (Radio 4) | Trustee, British Museum. Out now : Strangers & Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life (Picador) ! https://tiffanyjenkinsinfo.com/
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Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social · Jul 12
Delighted with this thoughtful review of Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life in the @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...
Behind closed doors?
One evening in 2018, Robert Ivinson, a first-year philosophy student at the University of Exeter, was alone in his designated room in halls of residence,
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · 2d
A new biography of the formative years of the Victorian poet illuminates an unparalleled historical moment of vulnerability and wonder.

Tennyson was young once | @mathewlyons.bsky.social

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Tennyson was young once
A new biography of the formative years of the Victorian poet illuminates an unparalleled historical moment of vulnerability and wonder.
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UnHerd @unherd.com · 9d
‘300 hours of raw footage, filmed over seven months, revealed the dirty laundry behind the facade’ | Tiffany Jenkins
How American privacy died
Is Oprah to blame? Paul Natkin/Getty Images.
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Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social · 9d
Big tech didn’t kill privacy. We did. My debut for @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/09/how-...
How American privacy died
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Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social · 21d
Greetings. I realized I missed your posts of supermarkets and film stars.
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Iona Italia, PhD @ionaitalia.bsky.social · Aug 29
Tiffany Jenkins’ new book is a passionate defence of the value of privacy. The ability to keep some things private is at the heart of human creativity, freedom, and happiness, she argues. Perhaps even this does not go far enough.      
Setting Man Free from Men
Tiffany Jenkins’ new book is a passionate defence of the value of privacy. The ability to keep some things private is at the heart of human creativity, freedom, and happiness, she argues. Perhaps even this does not go far enough.      
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Weekendavisen @weekendavisen.dk · Aug 28
I en tid, hvor mange deler deres inderste med omverdenen, argumenterer Tiffany Jenkins for det modsatte - at holde sit privatliv for sig selv.

Særligt på arbejdspladsen kan det være uhensigtsmæssigt at dele for meget: buff.ly/8Gnx4m4
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Ralph Leonard @buffsoldier96.bsky.social · Aug 29
"It is crucial for human freedom, indeed for a civilised society, to acknowledge that human beings aren’t simply political or communal animals."

I reviewed Tiffany Jenkins' illuminating history of privacy/private life via @quillette.bsky.social

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Setting Man Free from Men
Tiffany Jenkins’ new book is a passionate defence of the value of privacy. The ability to keep some things private is at the heart of human creativity, freedom, and happiness, she argues. Perhaps even...
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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · Aug 12
9:30am TODAY on @BBCRadio4Extra

The History of Secrecy
Ep 2 of 5, God's Secrets

The purpose and power of objects and secrets in religion. Tiffany Jenkins explores the idea of secret knowledge. From 2016.
BBC Radio 4 Extra - The History of Secrecy, 2. God's Secrets
Tiffany Jenkins explores the power of secrets in religions.
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Save Redland Library @saveredlandlibr.bsky.social · Aug 11
9:30am TODAY on ⁦‪@BBCRadio4Extra‬⁩

The History of Secrecy
Ep 1 of 5, The Age of Secrecy

Tiffany Jenkins explores the idea of secret knowledge. Back in the Middle Ages could alchemy reveal secrets of nature? From 2016.
BBC Radio 4 Extra - The History of Secrecy, 1. The Age of Secrecy
An exploration of the idea of secret knowledge.
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Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social · Aug 9
Lovely Andy Goldsworthy retrospective @ National Galleries Scotland. Moving, playful and a little dark.
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Turn The Page! - Syosset Public Library 🎤 @splturnthepage.bsky.social · Aug 4
Here's 361E: Dr. Tiffany Jenkins discusses STRANGERS AND INTIMATES: THE RISE AND FALL OF PRIVATE LIFE, which traces the evolution of the private realm from the ancient world to its current shifting and precarious status. @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social

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Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social · Aug 4
‘Fraid not.
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Engelsberg Ideas @engelsbergideas.bsky.social · Aug 4
When sex becomes a spectacle | Tiffany Jenkins

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When sex becomes a spectacle
The bedroom has become a broadcast studio, and what was once private has transformed into the ultimate public performance.
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Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social · Aug 4
The bedroom has become a broadcast studio, and what was once private has transformed into the ultimate public performance. My piece for
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When sex becomes a spectacle
The bedroom has become a broadcast studio, and what was once private has transformed into the ultimate public performance.
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · Aug 2
Happens to us all, Maureen.
Summer reading recommendations from a newspaper. (In the pic, the second para below is highlighted.) Maureen Lipman, actress I will be taking to Malta Shuggie Bain because my daughter and Rula Lenska told me it was dazzling and I believe them where I might not have believed the reviews. Also Shouting in the Evenings by James Hayes, a memoir by the actor who has been in most of the National Theatre's plays over the past 50 years. I saw it on Gyles Brandreth's shelf and said, "I'd love to read that." When I got home I looked at the cover and it said, "A helluva good read - Maureen Lipman," leading me to believe I have read it but just forgotten. So I will jolly well read it again. Third book would be Kiss Myself Goodbye by Ferdinand Mount. I am halfway through this startling memoir of the many lives of his Aunt Munca. It is "a voyage into a vanished moral world" and she is one of life's unforgettable characters.
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Tanjil Rashid @tanjilrashid.bsky.social · Nov 26
It has been said The Magic Mountain--published 100 years ago--is a "summing up of the European soul and mind”; we must realise this encompasses, no less, Europe’s anxious encounter with Asia.

My @newstatesman.com essay on Thomas Mann's East-West dialogue:

www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/1...
Thomas Mann and the European disease of nihilism
The vicious battle of ideas behind the continent's World Wars has migrated East.
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Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social · Jul 30
Damn History, indeed! Thanks for the shoutout!
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · Jul 29
Fabulous from @lauracummingart.bsky.social on the almost-forgotten master photographer William Notman, who left Scotland for fame and fortune in Canada: observer.co.uk/culture/phot...
William Notman and the invention of Canada | The Observer
The pioneering Scot documented the wildernesses of the young nation through the embryonic medium of photography. But it was in the studio that his true g...
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Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social · Jul 29
Thank you, it was an odd experience but I couldn’t imagine someone else doing it!
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Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social · Jul 12
Delighted with this thoughtful review of Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life in the @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...
Behind closed doors?
One evening in 2018, Robert Ivinson, a first-year philosophy student at the University of Exeter, was alone in his designated room in halls of residence,
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Jul 10
'A denuded concept of privacy is ‘more about agreeing to terms of service ... than the right to be left alone’.'

Cordelia Fine on the private sphere is under threat
Behind closed doors?
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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Jul 10
Gatsby at 100; Big Tech is watching; a day in Orwell’s life; decolonizing museums; a new manuscript by John Locke – and much more.

This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
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Tiffany Jenkins @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social · Jul 6
Thank you for the great review!
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · Jun 27
How did we lose the sense that some parts of life should be off-limits rather than open to commodification? Tiffany Jenkins's thoughtful new book Strangers and Intimates explores
A compelling book asks if we are killing off the idea of private life
How did we lose the sense that some parts of life should be off-limits rather than open to commodification? Tiffany Jenkins's thoughtful new book Strangers and Intimates explores
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Sergio Codespoti @codespoti.bsky.social · Jun 12
Book. Strangers and Intimates - the rise and fall of private life by Tiffany Jenkins
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