An engrossing and fascinating look at the past and present.

Od chvíle, kdy si lidé pod nadvládou církve poprvé uvědomili, že smějí mít vlastní tajemství, až po současnost, odehrávající se v přímém přenosu celému světu na očích skrze sociální sítě. Kdo a kdy…

What passes for sexual freedom in contemporary culture is often a retreat from moral judgment.

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Tiffany Jenkins about her fascinating and provocative new history, 'Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.'

A bronze jug looted from West Africa and displayed in the British Museum might sound like the same old story -- but this is a bit different as the jug was originally English, not African.

From 14th-century England to a royal palace in West Africa, discover the Asante Ewer's extraordinary journey across continents.

Managing Editor Iona Italia talks to Tiffany Jenkins about her fascinating and provocative new history, 'Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.'

Upcoming history and non-fiction titles that have caught my eye

How ideas about private and public life have evolved since the Reformation

How ideas about private and public life have evolved since the Reformation

Millions of Americans began eagerly erasing the public and private dividing line long before the internet.

Millions of Americans began eagerly erasing the public and private dividing line long before the internet.

Gladiators and dictators, wolves and Beatles feature in our list this year

The artist who made privacy her medium

The room is dark, the lighting deliberately low. At its centre stands a solitary object: a yellow and green earthenware vessel decorated with biblical symbolism. It’s a fireguard – or ‘curfew’...

When Samuel Richardson’s Pamela was published in 1740, it unleashed something unprecedented in literary history. This epistolary novel about a virtuous servant girl resisting her predatory master saw...

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

Is Oprah to blame? Paul Natkin/Getty Images.

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...

Tiffany Jenkins explores the power of secrets in religions.

An exploration of the idea of secret knowledge.

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.

The vicious battle of ideas behind the continent's World Wars has migrated East.

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...

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,

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

People are willing to tolerate transparent conflicts of interest but they won’t stand for hypocrisy

The idea of privacy is a surprisingly modern notion, but one worth defending.

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Recovering the forgotten histories of women in the Ancient World

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