Tiffany Jenkins
@tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social
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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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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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...
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These intimate objects reveal a life more collective, communal and precarious than ours.
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✍️ Tiffany Jenkins
Lice combs, vaginal syringes and cesspits: at home in 17th century Holland
The room is dark, the lighting deliberately low. At its centre stands a solitary object: a yellow and green earthenware vessel decorated with biblical symbolism. It’s a fireguard – or ‘curfew’...
www.spectator.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
These intimate objects reveal a life more collective, communal and precarious than ours.
✍️ Tiffany Jenkins
✍️ Tiffany Jenkins
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Michelangelo dismissed Flemish art because it encouraged viewers to emote rather than contemplate.
✍️ Tiffany Jenkins
✍️ Tiffany Jenkins
The radical power of sentimentality
When Samuel Richardson’s Pamela was published in 1740, it unleashed something unprecedented in literary history. This epistolary novel about a virtuous servant girl resisting her predatory master saw...
www.spectator.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Michelangelo dismissed Flemish art because it encouraged viewers to emote rather than contemplate.
✍️ Tiffany Jenkins
✍️ Tiffany Jenkins
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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 | @mathewlyons.bsky.social
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/tenn...
Tennyson was young once
A new biography of the formative years of the Victorian poet illuminates an unparalleled historical moment of vulnerability and wonder.
engelsbergideas.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/tenn...
Tennyson was young once | @mathewlyons.bsky.social
engelsbergideas.com/reviews/tenn...
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‘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.
unherd.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
‘300 hours of raw footage, filmed over seven months, revealed the dirty laundry behind the facade’ | Tiffany Jenkins
Big tech didn’t kill privacy. We did. My debut for @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/09/how-...
How American privacy died
unherd.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Big tech didn’t kill privacy. We did. My debut for @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/09/how-...
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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.
quillette.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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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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
Særligt på arbejdspladsen kan det være uhensigtsmæssigt at dele for meget: buff.ly/8Gnx4m4
August 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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
Særligt på arbejdspladsen kan det være uhensigtsmæssigt at dele for meget: buff.ly/8Gnx4m4
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"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
quillette.com/2025/08/29/s...
I reviewed Tiffany Jenkins' illuminating history of privacy/private life via @quillette.bsky.social
quillette.com/2025/08/29/s...
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...
quillette.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
"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
quillette.com/2025/08/29/s...
I reviewed Tiffany Jenkins' illuminating history of privacy/private life via @quillette.bsky.social
quillette.com/2025/08/29/s...
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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.
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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.
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.
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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.
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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.
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.
Lovely Andy Goldsworthy retrospective @ National Galleries Scotland. Moving, playful and a little dark.
August 9, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Lovely Andy Goldsworthy retrospective @ National Galleries Scotland. Moving, playful and a little dark.
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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
turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/07/31/t...
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August 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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
turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/07/31/t...
turnthepage.blubrry.net/2025/07/31/t...
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The bedroom has become a broadcast studio, and what was once private has transformed into the ultimate public performance. My piece for
@engelsbergideas.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/whe...
@engelsbergideas.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/whe...
When sex becomes a spectacle
The bedroom has become a broadcast studio, and what was once private has transformed into the ultimate public performance.
engelsbergideas.com
August 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The bedroom has become a broadcast studio, and what was once private has transformed into the ultimate public performance. My piece for
@engelsbergideas.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/whe...
@engelsbergideas.bsky.social engelsbergideas.com/notebook/whe...
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Happens to us all, Maureen.
August 2, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Happens to us all, Maureen.
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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...
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.
www.newstatesman.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:04 PM
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...
My @newstatesman.com essay on Thomas Mann's East-West dialogue:
www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/1...
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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...
observer.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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...
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,
www.the-tls.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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...
Reposted by Tiffany Jenkins
'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
Cordelia Fine on the private sphere is under threat
Behind closed doors?
www.the-tls.com
July 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
'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
Cordelia Fine on the private sphere is under threat
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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...
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
July 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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...
This week’s TLS is out now: www.the-tls.com/issues/curr...
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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
www.newscientist.com
June 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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
Reposted by Tiffany Jenkins
Reposted by Tiffany Jenkins
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
www.newscientist.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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
Delighted that Strangers and Intimates has made the Economist’s top 40
June 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Delighted that Strangers and Intimates has made the Economist’s top 40
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And here is another funny clip with Geoff Dyer speaking with @tds153.bsky.social and @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social on his father’s commitment to privacy.
June 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
And here is another funny clip with Geoff Dyer speaking with @tds153.bsky.social and @tiffanyjenkins.bsky.social on his father’s commitment to privacy.