Covid-19 and Comedy
The cliche that ‘laughter is the best medicine’ has probably never been less apt than during a global pandemic, but human beings do often resort to humour in the most desperate of circumstances. What role ...
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‘One summer, then all of this is gone’: Lyrics, Lockdown, and Late Antiquity
This article was originally published on Richard Kendall’s personal blog. Reproduced here with the author’s permission. Image credits: Destinygreece, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Richard Kendall ‘Alright, well. I had a tracked ...
Covid & Childhood
Although children face fewer health risks directly from covid-19, it is arguable that their lives have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic. In the UK, and much of the rest of the world, it is ...
Lockdown redux
When Boris Johnson declared the first lockdown on 23rd March 2020, the United Kingdom was still marching in step, with the peoples of all four constituent nations subject to the same restrictions aimed at preventing ...