tiffany jenkins
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Author: Keeping Their Marbles @OUPHistory ; History of Secrecy @BBCRadio4 . Spring 2025: Strangers & Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life @picadorbooks
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Dreadful news for all literary festivals, authors & audiences. The public square is being shut down just when we need it the most:
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One endless Edinburgh sunset (Thursday, 9.48pm) and a painting by Scottish colourist Francis Cadell suddenly makes sense.
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Glib, patronizing… belittling. The problem with these ‘interventions’ is not just that they are historically naive, but that they fundamentally misunderstand the way we use museums.’ Superb review of the new hang
@Tate
Britain
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Giving in was the wrong decision. It jeopardises not just EIBF, but the arts and public discourse as a whole.
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Very much so. Flattens history, character & story. Every woman is the the same: in the Palace of Versailles, as a member of the Dakota tribe, or in the Gilded Age. Always feisty. Always feminist. Always against the social order. Always tedious.
Why is every woman in a historical drama - avant garde, MODERN, a woman ahead of her time? Why bother with history?
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I am thrilled to make my debut in
@EngelsbergIdeas
on the strange death of private life. Spoiler alert: the internet did NOT kill private life.
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'It is rarely understood to be the value one must defend beyond all others. ..that private and public are two essentially different worlds and that respect for that difference is the indispensable condition, the sine qua non, for a man to live free.’ Milan Kundera. RIP.
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I am delighted to be chairing this event with ever insightful
@TimandraHarknes
on why technology is not the problem & why throwing your smartphone into the sea and running barefoot into the woods is not the answer to our troubles.
Launch event: May 14th, British Library.
See
@TimandraHarknes
in conversation with
@tiffanyjenkins
, have a glass of wine, and buy the book a week before publication date!
Book here:
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This documentary about the opera singer Janet Baker, who just turned 90, is superb. One of the finest singers ever to emerge in the UK reflects on music, beauty, pain & life's troubles. Genuinely profound.
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Acts of removal are presented as a reckoning with historical wrongs, & a correction of previous acts of “erasure,” but they in fact obscure the past by concealing its troubling aspects. Pleased to write for
@compactmag_
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I just finished The Writing School by
@MirandaFrance1
& haven't read anything quite like it before: a funny, wise and moving reflection on grief & the art of writing. A recommended summer read.
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Really enjoyed taking part in this discussion on how cancel culture is killing the arts, with
@RosieKayK2CO
@Fox_Claire
@Emma_A_Webb
&
@MrWinMarshall
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Very much looking forward to talking about Locke and toleration & and what lessons it might have for our present moment. Tomorrow night at Oriel College. Sign up as I want to see
@m_k_daouda
in a ball gown. 💃🏿 maybe
@andrewdoyle_com
too who will be talking about John Milton.
All ye Oxonians, we will be hosting
@andrewdoyle_com
and
@tiffanyjenkins
for a talk about Locke, Milton, Toleration, Freedom, what they meant, what they could mean.
Come and join us.
If we are fully booked I’ll wear a ball gown.
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The question of how to restore meaning to children’s lives and how to foster a more optimistic society requires more than scapegoating smartphones. My review of Jonathan Haidt's The Anxious Generation.
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I enjoyed talking with
@EconTalker
on why the Elgin Marbles should stay in the British Museum - and more on museums and plunder
#ParthenonMarbles
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I have joined Substack to examine the historical roots of todays culture wars in museums and the arts, to get beyond the simplistic and constraining 'woke' versus 'anti-woke' arguments and analysis. Sign up here:
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I have launched the Substack 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' in which I investigate the historical roots of the culture wars, and more: cultural commentary, criticism and recommendations. Sign up! First post here:
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'Here is a figure of a man screaming in fear.' Amazing and interesting footage of Kenneth Clark and John Berger talking about Picasso's Guernica - Clarke doesn't think it could be a 'popular' painting, & they go on to discuss what could. Abt. 12 mins in:
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Enjoyed taking part in
@BBCRadio4
's Moral Maze on the repatriation -or not - of artefacts. Parthenon Marbles, Benin Bronzes. etc.
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Superb
@alexander_c_lee
essay on the significance & legacy of Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie and the humanity of history
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The war on private conversations serves neither politician or individual. My Substack on what we stand to lose:
#PrivacyMatters
#Privacy
#onlinesafteybill
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"Edinburgh’s principles are the values of an open and liberal society. But free expression and artistic liberty requires those virtues to be protected against those who would menace them." Terrific Leader in the Times.
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Excellent interview with the anthropologist Adam Kuper on his new book The Museum of other People:" 'Insiders’ understanding is not always deeper than experts’" by
@MatthewReiszTHE
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Crowds chanted “père de la patrie”, “héros des opprimés”. Lumumba lookalikes wore tailored suits, thin ties & semi-rimless glasses.
Superb reporting on the restitution of Patrice Lumumba’s gold-capped tooth from Brussels to Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Delighted to wish
@compactmag_
a happy birthday and to see it go from strength to strength, opening up the public square. Delighted to have contributed on how museums are quarantining the past.
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Surprising sentence after surprising sentence in this obituary of film critic Derek Malcolm. A life story that could quite easily be a film plot.
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@JANUSZCZAK
I don’t think that is the main argument people, including me, make. It was also some time ago…(good film though, as ever 🙂)
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Author grandstanding at Edinburgh book festival is a threat to public discussion
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A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class. Superb, moving piece on Richard Bernstein & the social nature of truth via
@NewYorker
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Turn Every Page, the documentary about Robert Caro & Robert Gottlieb, is so inspiring. It leaves you wanting to read every page, move to Texas, and write in depth books on a typewriter.
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My next Substack post and podcast on the crisis in anthropology museums with iconoclast Adam Kuper on his new book The Museum of Other People
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The age of average. Good essay on why everything looks the same.
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"I have been watching the interior of a scroll emerge from the mist" Incredibly exciting research: high-powered CT scans & AI are being successfully used to decipher ancient scrolls from a library preserved when Vesuvius erupted in AD 79
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"Rather than extend and delineate time, contemporary museums compress it, eliding the past and present." Delighted to write for
@compactmag_
on how museums are obscuring the past by concealing its troubling aspects.
In a wave of self-abasement, museums and galleries are removing swathes of history from their display cases.
My friend
@tiffanyjenkins
makes her
@compactmag_
debut, with an enraging piece about how curators are erasing, rather than preserving, history.
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@Fox_Claire
@rosiewilby
@acadofideas
@buffsoldier_96
@Nina_Compact
@Ella_M_Whelan
This is going to be a great session.
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The smart phone is not to blame for the 'epidemic' of anxiety in young people, by
@tiffanyjenkins
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In ‘Prince Albert’s Private Etchings’ I unveil the fascinating tale of one of the earliest private panics—the scandal over the private etchings of Queen Victoria and Albert.
#privacy
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Here, in 'The Death of Private Life’, I show how the 1970s marked a pivotal moment when the definition of privacy split from defending the private sphere and shifted towards controlling personal information about oneself.
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@mwecker
Primarily something else: we live in a culture that is so saturated in presentism, that it's hard to even imagine that things - how people lived and thought - were different. There is also a self-serving tendency to moralise abt the past which shows that we know better.
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@CharlotteCGill
We are in Hastings which has a buzz to it and some nice houses. Cheaper than London by a mile and many zeros. If you fancy a trip down ping me and I will show you around.
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This amusing footage of Bernstein talking about the Beatles takes you back to that hard to imagine era, when the group was culturally and social challenging, whilst also providing insight into their incredible musical innovation.
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@g_shullenberger
Good piece. See also on the limits of anti woke, but - there is always a but - the underlying forces that birthed woke are still in play. (Poss: the problem of authority, meaning, & the impact of the personal is political, to throw out a few suggestions).
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@SIRJOHNREITH
@RosieKayK2CO
@DeniseFahmy
New organisation to help cancelled artists and hold arts institutions to account.
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Can art memorialise atrocity? Insightful convo between music critic
@Jeremy_Eichler
, author of "Time's Echo," &
@tobymundy
,
@BGPrize
, on music by Schoenberg, Strauss, Shostakovich, and Britten, written through the yrs of WW2 & the Holocaust.
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Not just birds, bees and flowers. Amazing tapestry celebrating the actual burning of books: 'Saint Paul Directing the Burning of the Heathen Books at Ephesus' Henry VIII commissioned the series as a statement about the Reformation he had just begun.
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The origins of the t-shirt was as underwear for women. Excellent thread on changing threads.
Here is another bit of surprising history. The t-shirt started as a union suit, a type of one-piece underwear originally created for women under the Victorian dress reform movement of the late 19th century. Women considered it freeing.
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Excellent
@mrianleslie
Sub on the necessity of traditions & school for innovation - & how the decline of which is, paradoxically, "responsible for a shortage of individuals capable of inventing the future."
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@Rokewood
@amwilson_opera
@fugitiveink
I agree. More poetic than the others which are too similar, and sigh inducing even though I agree, to other titles.
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A curious fact about 'The Green Man' is that although he is an invented figure whose name was coined in 1939, it was later discovered that a god whose name can be translated 'green man' (Viridius) was worshipped at Roman Ancaster, Lincolnshire
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@Samling_Inst
@RCMLondon
@RWCMD
@jeremykleeman
This day was one of the best musical encounters I have ever had. Very intense and special occasion, thank you.
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@ghostofchristo1
Would love it if you could expand. Arlie Russell Hochschild argues The Outsourced Self, that the market has commodifed everything that was once part of private life
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A great loss to the arts. That Hugo Burge made made such a great and beautiful contribution is some comfort. Ripples will be felt in ages to come.
Deeply saddened to hear of the death of Hugo Burge . Captured here in this wonderful portrait by David Eustace who said of him’ A very special man and a great friend to artists ‘ I am so grateful for his kindness and the support he showed for my work. He will be missed by so many
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I have written a long read on the rise and fall of private life told through royal privacy scandals. In ‘Harry and Meghan's Privacy Paradox’, I show that privacy is no longer about 'the right to be let alone' but about being recognised.
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"The archive makes clear that, with respect to Covid — with respect to so much — we are a society of anecdotes without a narrative. " Fascinating long-read on the difficulty with making sense of and giving meaning to the Covid pandemic.
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@tonygilland
@wearliegig
Yes, agreed - (I sought it out shortly after the event). Thought comments from
@DidierRykner
particularly insightful.
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@Alex__1789
@JonasKyratzes
The blue hairs were growing in the realm of the private. See Katie Rophie's The Morning After. Sex more public and at first free but as consequence more open to scrutiny & regulation - as in the Clinton Lewinsky case.
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@dmperks1
@Fox_Claire
Fraid so. I have written about these trends recently in various posts such as this one:
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'the fundamental question in American politics today is not which competing policy vision will triumph, but whether any political project is possible or desirable at all – whether right, left, or centre is even capable of offering one.' By
@JuliusKrein
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@SueGreaney
@profdanhicks
Yes, we could have done with longer to unpick some of this and explore our differences. I hope to return to it and elaborate soon.
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@ARLinklater
Sorry for your loss, Alex. How amazing though to have this song. She sounds like an incredible woman.
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Zut alors.
High on the list of Most Bizarre Shit To Happen To Me In Publishing, a kind reader has alerted me to a brutal misprinting in a recent run of Jade War: instead of chapters 13-15, there are 31 pages of A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy D. Popkin 😱
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The Time is Out of Joint - my Substack on the slippages between past, present and future.
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