In June 2020 members of the Solitudes Network met to discuss work and ideas related to the theme of Voluntary Solitude. In this paper from the colloqium Thomas Laqueur returns to his book Solitary Sex to explore the medicalisation and pathologisation of masturbation in the eighteenth century.

In June 2020, the Solitudes network met to discuss research related to the theme of voluntary solitude. In this paper, Erin Lafford considers the companionship of humans and nonhumans in solitude through the work of labouring-class Romantic poet, John Clare.

In June 2020, the Solitudes network met to discuss research related to the theme of voluntary solitude. Here Leo Coleman offers an account of social distancing (something we were all getting used to at the time) read through the lens of social anthropology.