Meet the Trustees

Dr Tiffany Jenkins is an author and an academic. She will release her latest book Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life in May 2025. She is also the author of Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended up in Museums and Why They Should Keep Them (2016) and Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority (2010). Additionally, she edited the collection Political Culture: Soft Interventions and Nation Building (2014).

Dr Jenkins has held positions as an honorary fellow in the History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and as a visiting fellow in the Department of Law at the London School of Economics.

Her broadcasting contributions include presenting the series A History of Secrecy; Contracts of Silence – which examines the rise of non-disclosure agreements; and Beauty and the Brain: What Science Can and Cannot Tell Us About Art for BBC Radio 4. She has frequently appeared as a critic on Radio 4's Saturday Review and Front Row. Her opinion pieces have been featured in the Observer, Financial Times, the Spectator and the Scotsman, where she was a weekly opinion columnist.