Lyndsey Stonebridge
@lyndseystonebri.bsky.social
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/
'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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📣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...
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
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 AM
📣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...
Please join us for a wonderful day discussing language, affect and experience!
See schedule and registration details here:
birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/11/netw...
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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-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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-...
Hugely looking forward to this!
With the extraordinary @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social and Thomas Meyer, authors of two most compelling recent biographies.
www.goethe.de/ins/es/de/st...
www.goethe.de/ins/es/de/st...
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Hugely looking forward to this!
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.
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-...
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
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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.
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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...
🔗 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
November 16, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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...
🔗 theconversation.com/labours-plan...
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.
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...
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
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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.
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...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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!
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!
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...
And sometimes threatening to kill them...
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
November 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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!
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!
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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 (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
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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 (c20), Trinity College, Cambridge
[This includes a teaching requirement for International Relations]
www.trin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/co...
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...
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
November 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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...
ethic.es/entrevista-m...
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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
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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....
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...
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
November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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...
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
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?...
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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November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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?...
youtu.be/cgj7Uu8ps20?...
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The experts whose work features in the open-access Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection on EXPeditions include British Academy Fellows Lyndsey Stonebridge, Charles Tripp, Catherine Hall, Philippe Sands and more 👇
https://bsky.app/profile/expeditions.bsky.social/post/3lyummitvv22m
https://bsky.app/profile/expeditions.bsky.social/post/3lyummitvv22m
The living library of knowledge. Discover the Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection in partnership with @leverhulme.ac.uk. While researchers push the boundaries of knowledge forward, we try to help push back the borders of ignorance and indifference.
#PLPEXPeditions #LeverhulmeTrust
#PLPEXPeditions #LeverhulmeTrust
September 15, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The experts whose work features in the open-access Philip Leverhulme Prize Collection on EXPeditions include British Academy Fellows Lyndsey Stonebridge, Charles Tripp, Catherine Hall, Philippe Sands and more 👇
https://bsky.app/profile/expeditions.bsky.social/post/3lyummitvv22m
https://bsky.app/profile/expeditions.bsky.social/post/3lyummitvv22m
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Sharing again this extensive and far-reaching interview with Lyndsey Stonebridge about literature and human rights. People who read: read this! #reading #books #HumanRights #VirginiaWoolf #PrimoLevi #HannahArendt #BehorouzBoochani #TsitsiDangarembga fivebooks.com/best-books/h...
Human Rights and Literature
The best books to explore the deep connection between human rights and literature, recommended by Professor Lyndsey Stonebridge
fivebooks.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Sharing again this extensive and far-reaching interview with Lyndsey Stonebridge about literature and human rights. People who read: read this! #reading #books #HumanRights #VirginiaWoolf #PrimoLevi #HannahArendt #BehorouzBoochani #TsitsiDangarembga fivebooks.com/best-books/h...
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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.
October 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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.
We need to have a conversation about the value and purpose of our national libraries and archives.
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
#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
November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
We need to have a conversation about the value and purpose of our national libraries and archives.
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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...
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
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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“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…. “
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...
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
November 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“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…. “
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...
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
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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
#humanities
October 27, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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
#humanities
Why civil societies are not (always) the answer to fascism: @proufos.bsky.social on Marburg before #Arendt & #Heidegger.
Just published. You can find it here: pavlosroufos.substack.com/p/a-weimar-m...
October 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Why civil societies are not (always) the answer to fascism: @proufos.bsky.social on Marburg before #Arendt & #Heidegger.
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?
October 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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?