By Fred Cooper A guest post in the blog series on ‘Solitude in the Time of COVID-19‘ from historian Fred Cooper, who offers a path…
Category: Stories and Experiences
By Charlotte Jones In collaboration with workers, trade unions and local campaigns, this project responds to rapidly changing circumstances in the hospitality sector since the UK…
By Fred Cooper and Charlotte Jones In this article Charlotte Jones and Fred Cooper argue that Covid-19 seems to be creating the conditions for new extremes…
By Fred Cooper and Charlotte Jones A project on loneliness and mental health in collaboration with student co-researchers, most recently in the charged and altered context…
By Olly Clabburn, Fred Cooper, and Charlotte Jones lockdownblues.co.uk A website and virtual scrapbook for the sharing of experiences and observations on loneliness and isolation before,…
Professor Luna Dolezal, Dr Fred Cooper and Dr Arthur Rose have received a UKRI-AHRC COVID Rapid Response Grant (AH/V013483/1) for a project called “Scenes of Shame…
By Neville Morley As the world endures a pandemic, the War on the Rocks podcast looks to a plague of the past: that which struck…
By Neville Morley The first detailed, quasi-scientific account of epidemic disease was offered by the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides, describing an outbreak of ‘plague’ (the…
By Pascale Aebischer This project aims to provide a roadmap for local and regional companies that will enable them to bring furloughed staff back onto…
By Luna Dolezal Social distancing has dislodged all human bodies from the usual taken-for-granted fabric of embodied social relations, leading to a repertoire of interaction…
By Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands Effervescent work with at-risk young people to produce profound works of art that are usually displayed in Radiant Gallery,…
In this paper we take up three terms – containment, delay, mitigation – that have been used by the UK Government to describe their phased…
By Fabrizio Nevola and collaborators PUblic REnaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present is a project funded by the…
By Jessie Stanier Jessie is working with Nicole Miglio (San Raffaele University, Milan) and Dr Luna Dolezal (Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health,…
By Sarah Cambpell Hyperlocal is a series of 10 micro-commissions by freelance Devon and Cornwall based artists exploring the hyperlocal of their immediate domestic environment.…
By Clive Barnett During the COVID-19 pandemic, British citizens have been asked to act responsibly in novel ways because of the risks their behaviour poses…
By Ian Cook Created in 52 hours by 16+ postgraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, artists and academics, this book tries to capture its authors’ lockdown experiences,…