Lyndsey Stonebridge
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Lyndsey Stonebridge
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Writer, professor, botherer.

'We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love & Disobedience', 2024.

'Old Women: A History of Our Future', coming 2027.

https://lyndseystonebridge.com/
The cyber attack itself was an assault on our capacity to think, learn, and establish the historical truth. Small wonder others thought it worth targeting. What does it say about us that we didn't seem to really care?
November 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Marianne Faithful and not Trump this time last year....😥
November 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Isn't it awful. Conor Gearty and Rachel Cooke in the same year. Too bloody soon, and just when we need them most.
November 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Thank you! And thanks to for the excellent reference.
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Reposted by Lyndsey Stonebridge
Last year I came across this wonderful study of the unnamed and forgotten women in the Eichmann trial. There's an account of a typist who slept in a cot in her office on top of the testimonies she had typed up, to protect them. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Behind the scenes: women in the Eichmann trial
The trial of the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann (1961), a significant event in the Holocaust commemoration history, was organised and managed by men. The three judges, the prosecutors, and the defenc...
www.tandfonline.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Thank you!
November 11, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I could add that there were so many women writers and journalists at Nuremberg because the men were not there? Some were still in the East, others thought it unimportant, a sideshow, not worthy of editorial attention.

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-jud...
The Judicial Imagination
The Judicial Imagination
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Thank you ! And Arendt is definitely worth spending your time with.
November 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Thank you! That really is too kind, but yes, yes, to brilliant women across the decades.
November 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM