Dr Tiffany Jenkins

Tiffany is an author, writer, and broadcaster. Her book Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There was published by OUP 2016 to great critical acclaim. She is also the author of Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority (Routledge 2011). She writes cultural comment regularly for the broadsheet press, and she was the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme Beauty and the Brain, which explored what science can tell us about art, and has written and will present A Narrative History of Secrecy, which will be broadcast on Radio 4 in autumn 2016.

 Related Sessions

Thursday 16 October 2008, 7.00pm Weston Room, King's College's Maughan Library, Chancery Lane. WC2A 1LR
Researching the arts - why bother?


Tuesday 28 October 2008, 7.00pm Foyles Charing Cross Road
Contemporary attitudes to ageing and dying


Saturday 1 November 2008, 12.15pm Lecture Theatre 2
Text and the City: what is a city of literature?


Saturday 1 November 2008, 3.30pm Henry Moore Gallery
CSI mania


 Publications

Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of Antiquity Ended Up in Museums – And Why They Should Stay There. (OUP 2016)
Political Culture, Soft Interventions and Nation Building (Routledge, 2014)
Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: the crisis of cultural authority (Routledge, 2010)


 Festival Buzz

"The Battle of Ideas provides a valuable and positive resource at a time when intelligent debate, public speaking and challenge seem to be diminishing in public life."
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