Lyndsey Stonebridge, author portrait
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Lyndsey Stonebridge

Lyndsey Stonebridge is a professor of humanities and human rights at the University of Birmingham (UK) and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her most recent book is We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience, which was a finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Award for Biography. She is featured in the PBS/American Masters documentary Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny as one of the leading authorities of Arendt and her writings. Stonebridge's previous books include Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees, winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg, which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for English Literature; and the essay collection Writing and Righting: Literature in the Age of Human Rights. She is a regular media commentator and broadcaster. She is currently working on a new book, Old Women: A History of Our Future (2027). She lives in London and France.
We Are Free to Change the World

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We Are Free to Change the World

Books for Black History Month

In honor of Black History Month this February, we are highlighting essential fiction and nonfiction for students, teachers, and parents to share and discuss this month and beyond. Join Penguin Random House Education in celebrating the contributions of Black authors and illustrators by exploring the titles here: BLACK HISTORY – MIDDLE SCHOOL BLACK HISTORY –

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