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Strangers and Intimates

Tiffany Jenkins
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European history
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history of ideas
privacy
social ethics
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social science
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surveillance
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781529034189
  • Weight: 314g
  • Dimensions: 131 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 14 May 2026
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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An Economist Book of the Year
'An intricate cultural history . . . Thought-provoking’ – The Sunday Times
'Brilliantly original . . . Endlessly fascinating’ – Alice Loxton, author of Eighteen
'Lucid and elegant’ – The Daily Telegraph

From ancient times to our digital present, Strangers and Intimates traces the dramatic emergence of private life, and argues that it is now in mortal danger.

In this sweeping history, acclaimed cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins takes readers on an epic journey, from the strict separations of public and private in ancient Athens to the moral rigidity of the Victorian home, and from the feminists of the 1970s – who declared that ‘the personal is political’ – to the boundary-blurring demands of our digital age.

Strangers and Intimates is both a celebration of the private realm and a warning: as social media, surveillance and the expectations of constant openness reshape our lives, Jenkins asks a timely question: can private life survive the demands of the twenty-first century?
About Tiffany Jenkins
Dr Tiffany Jenkins is a writer, cultural historian and broadcaster. She is the author of the acclaimed Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There. She’s a former honorary fellow in the History of Art department at the University of Edinburgh and a former visiting fellow in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics. She wrote and presented the BBC Radio 4 series ‘A History of Secrecy’ and ‘Contracts of Silence', about the rise of non-disclosure agreements, and has appeared regularly as a critic on Saturday Review and Front Row. She is a trustee of the British Museum. Her opinion pieces have appeared in The Guardian, The Observer, the Financial Times, The Scotsman and The Spectator. She divides her time between London and Sussex. Strangers and Intimates is her third book.

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