Collected Item: “HIST30060: Trying to create a Place of Greater Safety”
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HIST30060: Trying to create a Place of Greater Safety
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
Photograph, within A Place of Great Safety by Hilary Mantel
Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.
HIST30060: I read this quote during the first Victorian lockdown, and I completely resonated with it. The isolation of lockdown had somehow made the biggest event of my life, and possibly the century, feel repetitive, mundane and even boring. It was strange to me that I could accurately describe a crisis atmosphere as dreary, in a way I would never before have been able to understand.
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#HIST30060 #HilaryMantel #crisis atmosphere
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Isobella Northeast
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2020-05-06