Part of a series of research seminars on pandemics hosted by Sheffield's Centre for Contemporary and Modern History.

Caring for the past: histories of loneliness in the COVID-19 pandemic

Frederick Cooper (University of Exeter)

Frederick Cooper is a research fellow in evidence-based policy, and is also the lead academic on the Centre’s Beacon project on loneliness, He is a historian of medicine with interests in loneliness, solitude, alienation, exclusion, and culture. Read his blog on ‘COVID-19 and the Loneliness Crisis’ here.