Great to see this in the NYT about living with/near friends. For my latest book BAD FRIEND, I met many friends living in these kinds of communities, delving into its pasts, when it was a very common way for women especially to live. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

Opinion | Five Adults. Two Kids. One London Townhouse. Is This How We Should Raise Children?

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Excited to be involved with a new research network at @crasshlive.bsky.social exploring Precarious Ageing, past, present & future. We kick off 9th Oct/2pm, hybrid and in-person, with @paulfdhiggs.bsky.social & @evemworth.bsky.social in conversation. Register here www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/47719/

Thinking about precarity and aging - CRASSH

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

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We are thrilled to partner with @leverhulme.ac.uk and 5x15 for a special event at Conway Hall on the 17th of November, featuring several researchers from our new collection to discuss the importance of knowledge in a changing world ! #PLPEXPeditions @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social

🎭 Tiffany Watt Smith (@tiffwattsmith.bsky.social), historian of emotions at the Queen Mary University of London (@qmul.bsky.social), reflects on how theatre and emotions are connected and how performance helps us understand human experience. #Theatre #Emotions #PublicEngagement #PLPEXPeditions

What a treat! Just had a thoroughly enjoyable evening talking friendship with some extremely smart people including @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social @stephenshapiro.bsky.social @phuonghhle.com Alexander Douglas and Susie Orbach. Listen in! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Free Thinking - Friendship - BBC Sounds

Matthew Sweet discusses the mythology, psychology and politics getting along with people.

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I don't have many followers here, but...any suggestions for who could repair the mechanism on this beautiful old pinball machine? It belonged to my godfather, who recently died, and it brought joy to so many children (inc. me), and we want to repair it as a tribute to him. It is in SE London. 🙏

I agree, the Book of Human Emotions is an excellent heatwave read. Short entries = time for languid day-dreaming. Plus an entry on the feeling hot days do best: dolce far niente, or the sweet sweet pleasure of doing nothing much at all. Hope you enjoy @nicolecrust.bsky.social

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What's your favorite emotion (word)? I've been admiring this book by @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social in my "can't wait to read" pile. The (summer)time is right! You may be feeling umpty, in need of a vacation. Or maybe it's just matutolypea? wellcomecollection.org/books/the-bo...

@medhistoryman.bsky.social saw this and thought of your excellent-sounding project. Intrigued to know if the link between tobacco and palm reading was widely made.

At book events for BAD FRIEND, the cutest thing keeps happening. Pairs of women friends come up and buy a copy of the book to share and ask me to dedicate it to them both, and my heart is melting @faberbooks.bsky.social @smallcitybookshop.bsky.social 💓

And I'm even more happy because my brother just sent me this snap of BAD FRIEND as Pick of the Week in @theweek.com Thank you so much to all the wonderful historians and writers who gave it such generous recommendations and reviews, and to all of you who are buying it #friendship #theweek 😘

This Thursday I'll be talking about BAD FRIEND at the wonderful @smallcitybookshop.bsky.social in Bristol. I'm so excited because Bristol is one of my top-of-the-pops utter favourite cities in the UK. Please come and say hello. www.thesmallcitybookshop.co.uk/event-detail...

My nomination for “Best Information Sheet in a Parish Church”…

I wrote about friendship, perimenopause and boxing for Oprah Daily and i’d love for you to read it! x www.oprahdaily.com/life/relatio...

The Unexpected Joy of Joining a Women’s Boxing Club After 40

Tiffany Watt Smith never considered herself a "joiner"—until she was magnetically drawn to a local boxing club for women over forty and had to rethink everything she knew about friendship and herself.

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I wrote about learning a tough lesson, and how it made me a (I think) a better friend (ps: BAD FRIEND 26% off on Amazon right now) www.dailymail.co.uk/home/you/art...

When no one turned up for my birthday, I knew I'd made a big mistake

A disastrous birthday bash made Tiffany Watt Smith wake up to the fact she'd always been a flaky friend. But is this an inevitable pitfall of modern life - or can we change our ways?

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It's great to see Simeon Koole's wonderful and important book Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain's Cerebral Age reviewed in @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4.... I really can't recommend Sim's book highly enough - it's a stunning piece of historical scholarship.

Hannah Rose Woods · Tactile Dreams

The British aversion to touching wasn’t limited to the Victorian era: comparative studies confirm that we continue to...

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Been an exciting week for BAD FRIEND, since it was published last week in the UK I'm doing an event tomorrow night at The Wanstead Tap E7, and have a handful of free tickets. If you'd like to come, DM me! Tiff x www.newhambooks.co.uk/displaybook....

When crime strikes, the Cat signal will appear in the sky

'So many writers with fixes for the grips we need to get. No. Neither bother with reading like that. Both, by osmosis, staying well out of it, favouring wild worlds instead'. Eimear McBride on very cool form in her new book.

Does the phrase 'toxic friends' make you shudder? I hate it, and wrote about why in @theguardian.com

The big idea: should you dump your toxic friend?

Self-help pundits advise us to cut difficult people out of our lives, but it’s not the only option

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Very excited to be included in this month's books round-up in VOGUE, along with the brilliant @francesryan.bsky.social

We're so pleased to feature in this article by @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social which uses our material to consider what we should do about our 'toxic' friends www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m... (P.S. the heating at The Keep is now fixed! Hats and gloves can be left at home!)

The big idea: should you dump your toxic friend?

Self-help pundits advise us to cut difficult people out of our lives, but it’s not the only option

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Apparently, if you take a woman's pubic hair, mix it with menstrual blood, and put it on a dung heap, within a year, you'll have a whole army of 'wicked, venemous beasts' (according to the medieval Secreta mulierum). Just sayin...

Would you like to read BAD FRIEND: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTIONARY FRIENDSHIPS? There's 25% off pre-orders at Waterstones for this weekend only. And.... there's 25% off a TONNE of other amazing books coming out too 💫https://www.waterstones.com/book/bad-friend/tiffany-watt-smith/9780571376537

Bad Friend by Tiffany Watt Smith | Waterstones

Buy Bad Friend by Tiffany Watt Smith from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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These final weeks before publication are the strangest times of being an author. Part of you wants to protect the book you’ve been quietly loving into being for so long. And then there’s the part which knows you have to take a deep breath and hoof it out the door open.substack.com/pub/thefutur...

'Fizzes with women navigating, testing, and redefining this most powerful and complex bond.' Katherine Angel To celebrate Galentine's Day, we're thrilled to reveal the cover for Bad Friend, a rebellious new history of female friendship by @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social. Out 24 April!

'From the stone’s perspective my lifetime was a flicker; less than a flicker ... I stretched out my hand, conscious that this would be the oldest object I would ever touch.' 'The Meteorites' author @helenlpgordon.bsky.social on her fascination with ancient, extra-terrestrial rocks: buff.ly/4hO5IAw

Very excited amidst all this grim news that tonight we are launching the first annual National Humanities Lecture, delivered by the splendid @davidolusoga.bsky.social, speaking of the urgent importance of public humanities and public history.

Extract from the The Meteorites running in the @theguardian.com today: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

It came from outer space: the meterorite that landed in a Cotswolds cul-de-sac

Meteorite falls are extremely rare and offer a glimpse of the processes that formed our world billions of years ago. When a space rock came to an English market town in 2021, scientists raced to find ...

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Super excited about talking about trust and friendship at tomorrow's late event @britishacademy.bsky.social The Age of Mistrust? www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

The Age of Mistrust? LATE

Are we living in an Age of Mistrust? Explore the biggest questions of our time with a lively evening of workshops, talks, and performances.

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Super excited about talking about trust and friendship at tomorrow's late event at the British Academy, The Age of Mistrust? www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

The Age of Mistrust? LATE

Are we living in an Age of Mistrust? Explore the biggest questions of our time with a lively evening of workshops, talks, and performances.

thebritishacademy.ac.uk