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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

Political science 29%
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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 2d
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 · 3d
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 · 4d
Marianne Faithful and not Trump this time last year....😥

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 4d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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 · 6d
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
thethinblackduke.bsky.social thethinblackduke.bsky.social @thethinblackduke.bsky.social · 6d
It’s monsters all the way down.

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 8d
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.

ethic.es/entrevista-m...
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 · 8d
Thank you! And thanks to for the excellent reference.

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Heather Burns @heatherburnstech.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 8d
Thank you!

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 8d
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
edinburghuniversitypress.com

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 11d
Thank you ! And Arendt is definitely worth spending your time with.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 11d
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 · 13d
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 · 13d
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 · 15d
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 · 15d
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 · 18d
“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 · 18d
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 · 22d
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 · 23d
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 · 29d
Why civil societies are not (always) the answer to fascism: @proufos.bsky.social on Marburg before #Arendt & #Heidegger.
proufos.bsky.social Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · Oct 19
Just published. You can find it here: pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/a-weimar-m...