tiffany jenkins

Fantastic review of Strangers and Intimates.

Sometimes the best questions are the simplest. @tylercowen interviewing @hrcastor on medieval power is terrific podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/con…

“Do I dare / Disturb the universe?” I talked with my friend Megan Quigley, modernism scholar extraordinaire, about T. S. Eliot and “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Total dream of a conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/2oIzEN…

Against the new witch-hunt in the arts thecritic.co.uk/against-the-ne…

From Luther to Zuckerberg: Who killed Privacy?, by @ajkeen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/f… @tiffanyjenkins So who killed privacy? It's the central question of Tiffany Jenkins' provocative new history of private life, Strangers and Intimates. The answer, according to Jenkins, is that we…

“Our immediate thought was to tell Harvard"... Vincent emailed asking them to call for “remarkable good news.” Only “silence” followed. Delightful account of the discovery of an original Magna Carta. the-tls.com/history/mediev…

"Permanent visibility can hinder our ability to think, reflect and concentrate". From Cordelia Fine's excellent review of @tiffanyjenkins' Strangers and Intimates, in @TheTLS

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

I am looking forward to seeing the Bayeux Tapestry in the @britishmuseum next year. But I coness I hadnt realised that there was a full sized Victorian embroidered replica in Reading (plus a whole history of copying) tinyurl.com/cp5rhkw7

My compact debut. 😊 Neither Side Wants to Emancipate Women | Compact compactmag.com/article/neithe…

'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 the-tls.com/politics-socie…

McLuhan just helped me work out why I love Hieronymus Bosch so much - he lives "straddled between two worlds" and puts "medieval forms in Renaissance space"...

Great to see a fantastic review of @tiffanyjenkins 's fascinating book STRANGERS AND INTIMATES in the TLS. STRANGERS AND INTIMATES is out now from @picadorbooks the-tls.com/politics-socie…

Wonderful review of STRANGERS AND INTIMATES, ⁦@tiffanyjenkins⁩ “magisterial” history of private life by Cordelia Fine in ⁦@TheTLS⁩ ⁦@picadorbooks⁩ ⁦@AevitasUK⁩

This by @DKThomp continues his excellent, substantive exploration of the anti-social century.

We are lending Britain an iconic jewel of our shared history: the Bayeux Tapestry. This is the first time this national treasure will leave French soil. It marks an unprecedented cultural partnership between our two countries — a powerful symbol of our Entente amicale.

While you’re waiting #BayeuxTapestry …. This is an extraordinary experience bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeux-…

Wow, what a moment this will be.

Amazing bioluminescent algae (apparently) gown.

Best moment of a PhD is hearing your mum and dad proudly describe a completely different dissertation to their friends