The Rise and Fall of Private Life - Tiffany Jenkins | Maiden Mother Matriarch Episode 157
August 10, 2025
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My guest today is the writer and cultural historian Tiffany Jenkins. She has previously written books on museums and the moral questions raised by exhibiting or retaining certain artefacts, in that spirit she is also a trustee of the British Museum, and a radio presenter, including of the BBC Radio 4 series 'The History of Secrecy.' Her latest book is 'Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life.'
We spoke today about the shift in attitudes towards privacy that took place in Britain during the 18th century, why urbanisation causes intense anxiety over the boundaries around private life, historical attitudes towards abortion as a 'private matter', the politicisation of privacy in the second half of the twentieth century, and the rise of the therapeutic state which necessarily intrudes into the private lives – even the emotional lives – of its citizens.
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