Tiffany Jenkins

Tennyson was young once A new biography of the formative years of the Victorian poet illuminates an unparalleled historical moment of vulnerability and wonder.

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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How American privacy died Is Oprah to blame? Paul Natkin/Getty Images.

‘300 hours of raw footage, filmed over seven months, revealed the dirty laundry behind the facade’ | Tiffany Jenkins

How American privacy died

Big tech didn’t kill privacy. We did. My debut for @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/09/how-...

Greetings. I realized I missed your posts of supermarkets and film stars.

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.      

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.      

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

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...

"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...

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The History of Secrecy, 2. God's Secrets Tiffany Jenkins explores the power of secrets in religions.

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.

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The History of Secrecy, 1. The Age of Secrecy An exploration of the idea of secret knowledge.

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.

Lovely Andy Goldsworthy retrospective @ National Galleries Scotland. Moving, playful and a little dark.

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

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‘Fraid not.

When sex becomes a spectacle The bedroom has become a broadcast studio, and what was once private has transformed into the ultimate public performance.

When sex becomes a spectacle | Tiffany Jenkins

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When sex becomes a spectacle The bedroom has become a broadcast studio, and what was once private has transformed into the ultimate public performance.

The bedroom has become a broadcast studio, and what was once private has transformed into the ultimate public performance. My piece for
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Summer reading recommendations from a newspaper. (In the pic, the second para below is highlighted.) Maureen Lipman, actress I will be taking to Malta Shuggie Bain because my daughter and Rula Lenska told me it was dazzling and I believe them where I might not have believed the reviews. Also Shouting in the Evenings by James Hayes, a memoir by the actor who has been in most of the National Theatre's plays over the past 50 years. I saw it on Gyles Brandreth's shelf and said, "I'd love to read that." When I got home I looked at the cover and it said, "A helluva good read - Maureen Lipman," leading me to believe I have read it but just forgotten. So I will jolly well read it again. Third book would be Kiss Myself Goodbye by Ferdinand Mount. I am halfway through this startling memoir of the many lives of his Aunt Munca. It is "a voyage into a vanished moral world" and she is one of life's unforgettable characters.

Happens to us all, Maureen.

Thomas Mann and the European disease of nihilism The vicious battle of ideas behind the continent's World Wars has migrated East.

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...

Damn History, indeed! Thanks for the shoutout!

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...

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...

Thank you, it was an odd experience but I couldn’t imagine someone else doing it!

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,

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?

'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

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...

Thank you for the great review!

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

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

Thank you!

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

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

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.

This is very good on the pessimism and fatalism of postliberalism.