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Lyndsey Stonebridge
@lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
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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 · 2d
Thank you ! And Arendt is definitely worth spending your time with.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you! That really is too kind, but yes, yes, to brilliant women across the decades.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 4d
And here's the - much longer - book icyi
www.penguin.co.uk/books/441705...
We Are Free to Change the World
This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty 'Compelling and original' OBSERVER 'An absorbing new biograph...
www.penguin.co.uk

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 4d
As you might be able to tell from my shade of green, I'd just stepped off a plane from New York and was incredibly jet-lagged when I made this The British Academy 10 minute talk over a year ago. I'm so pleased, honoured, and frankly surprised it's resonated so widely!

youtu.be/cgj7Uu8ps20?...
Hannah Arendt's lessons for our times: the banality of evil, totalitarianism and statelessness
YouTube video by The British Academy
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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 6d
We need to have a conversation about the value and purpose of our national libraries and archives.

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 6d
The British Library’s chief executive has resigned with immediate effect midway through strike action over what has been called a “derisory” pay offer

#AcademicSky
British Library chief executive quits amid strike action over pay
National library chief Rebecca Lawrence will be replaced by interim head Jeremy Silver with immediate effect
www.timeshighereducation.com

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Bonnie Honig @bonniehonig.bsky.social · 9d
“Famously, the author’s rule was only to include atrocities that had actually happened. The Pinochet regime in Chile, the baby-stealing of the Argentine generals, the fear and secrecy behind the iron curtain – all went in…. “

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 9d
Great interview with one of the greats, marred only by gratuitous reference to Atwood's age in...checks... the second sentence.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘It is the scariest of times’: Margaret Atwood on defying Trump, banned books – and her score-settling memoir
At 86, she’s a literary seer and saint – and queen of the Canadian resistance. So what does the writer make of our dystopian world?
www.theguardian.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 13d
By inducing writer's rage?
How profoundly depressing ....

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 14d
Nothing like the AI police bot telling me I'm reading a very long article & asking whether I would like a summary to save me thinking for myself for making me read that very long article, that a colleague has laboured to produce in total good faith, very slowly and very carefully.

#humanities

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 20d
Why civil societies are not (always) the answer to fascism: @proufos.bsky.social on Marburg before #Arendt & #Heidegger.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 21d
Just accessed this (this morning the link wouldn't work bc... etc). Looks terrific! Will read this week. And thank you - this is why we write...x

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 22d
Just published. You can find it here: pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/a-weimar-m...

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Ben Wood /|\🥭🌿✝️ @cosmichope.bsky.social · 22d
This book is turning out to be absolutely gorgeous. A touching portrait of Hannah Arendt, combined with extended meditations on history, humanity, meaning, and the politics of extremes. I find the defence of Kantian ethics deeply moving.
The image is the cover of the book We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience by Lyndsey Stonebridge.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 23d
Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23d
Is there a form of collective human action that might prevent AI from spewing out book blurbs with the words "clarion call" in them? Or possibly persuading publishers that human-written books deserve human-written blurbs?

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 24d
Thank your Rima! 💙

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 24d
🙏💙🚬

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 24d
'Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny' wins the @historians.org
John E. O’Connor Film Award for outstanding interpretations of history through film.

It was an honour to work and appear on this beautifully edited, timely, documentary.

www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 25d
New book. Old women. 👠

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 27d
“The miracle that saves the world, the realm of human affairs, from its normal, ‘natural’ ruin is the fact of natality... in other words, the birth of new & the new beginning, the action [people] are capable of by virtue of being born.”

Happy Birthday Hannah Arendt, 14/10/1906 💙🚬

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28d
My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏
carolecadwalla.bsky.social Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29d
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29d
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

Reposted by Lyndsey Stonebridge

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German History Society @germanhistsoc.bsky.social · Oct 12
The next round of GHS Small Grant funding is now open!

We support conferences and workshops such as the fantastic colloquium recently held at the University of Oxford with @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social and Thomas Meyer. Read more about it on the GHS Blog here:

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · Oct 11
Back in May, Sophie West invited Thomas Meyer and myself to Oxford to talk about writing the life of Hannah Arendt. Our biographies are very different, but the conversation was revealing and - in an Arendtian sense - good fun.

www.germanhistorysociety.org/ecr-blogs/co...
Colloquium Report: ‘Hannah Arendt: In Conversation with Thomas Meyer and Lyndsey Stonebridge’ – German History Society | Promoting the Study of German History Worldwide
www.germanhistorysociety.org

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · Oct 7
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · Oct 6
Monday feelings with Louise Bourgeois.

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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · Oct 5
Writing something triggered by @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social's book on Arendt & her arrival in Marburg in 1924. The story includes (ordoliberal) Wilhelm Röpke & the murder of 15 workers by a fascist student militia in Mechterstädt during the days of the Kapp putsch. Interestingly, Röpke was part of >