Our postdoctoral researcher James Morland writes the second guest post on 'Solitude in the Time of COVID-19', focused on poetry as a means of facing solitude and a collective loss of normalcy.

Our Principal Investigator Barbara Taylor approaches solitude via a study of opposites in the intellectual life of eighteenth-century Europe.

This month, our postdoctoral researcher Charlie Williams has been speaking to Elyakim Kiselv about his new book on the ways in which everyone - single or coupled - can benefit from accepting solo living.

Our postdoctoral researcher Akshi Singh writes about Marion Milner's sense of an adventurous solitude and the inspiration she might provide for diary writers of today.

James Morland, our postdoctoral researcher, considers here how solitude reveals the distinct differences between John Keats’ self-identification as a brother and as a poet.

In this blog Barbara Taylor, our project’s Principal Investigator, discusses the meanings of ‘solitude’ in some early modern texts.