Tag: isolation

Monday, 6:32 p.m. The email arrives saying someone in the house has tested positive and you’re going into isolation for 14 days. We lead...

Many women have reported feeling far less safe stepping outside since lockdown and social distancing measures were imposed in the UK.

I can’t lie, when I heard the news that we’d probably all be holed up in our rooms for the next few months, without...

Of all the emotions that may be stirred in one during the current Coronavirus lockdown, tranquility is perhaps not the most obvious choice. Yet...

You might think that working in a library would be a nice, peaceful job. That’s what I thought too. After spending two years working...

“Lights up. The actor is alone” - type aspiring playwrights all over the world, unconsciously in unison. I anticipate reading this line (or something similar) over...

With term looming and a reading list down to our feet, we’re all getting our fair share of mental exercise. But with thinking comes frustration, and...

We are spending more of the vacation indoors than we intended to… and with that comes the temptation to crawl into bed in our pyjamas and...

As we all isolate at home in the middle of this outbreak, it is difficult not to feel powerless. We are not medical professionals,...

Prompted by an object from the collection, anyone may share a creative response

I will rekindle the love affair with reading that I left behind when I came to Oxford.

Anna Gunstone reflects on how listening to music can remain a communal experience even in isolation.

I’ve only been away from Oxford for a week. I’ve only spent a week in isolation at home with my parents. But a week...

On the 13th of March, the Met Opera’s Twitter announced that they would begin a series of ‘nightly live streams’ of beloved operas for anyone with...