The Pathologies of Solitude project has come to an end. In our final blog, our team reflect on the work of the project and how it shaped their thinking on solitude.

Akshi Singh, Nisha Ramayya and Tasha Pick reflect on the artworks, poetry and performances that grew out of a series of workshops run by 'Pathologies of Solitude' in collaboration with Hackney Migrant Centre this year.

In this blog, researcher Daniel Beaumont explores the solitudes shared in correspondence between Elizabeth Carter and Catherine Talbot.

Vanessa Lim misses dancing. In this blog, she learns new ways to say 'I miss you' and remembers the intimacies of dance partners.

Our Principal Investigator, Barbara Taylor discusses what it means to be 'involved in mankind as a whole' in pandemic times.

Hannah Zeavin discusses the role of distance in the history of mediated therapies with Solitudes researcher, Charlie Williams.

In our latest blog, researcher Jeffrey Mathias writes about NASA's isolation chamber, used to put astronauts to the test in the 1950s.

Researchers Hannah Yip and Thomas Clifton explore solitude in early modern meditations and sermons on widowhood and remarriage.

Illustrator and author Sophie Burrows guides us through the work she has created for our new exhibition, 'Finding Solitude', week-by-week.

In our latest post, Tom Wicker reflects on the sensory solace of lockdown baking and breathing out in the face of COVID uncertanties.