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Collected Item: “Isolation bakes - HIST30060”

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Isolation bakes - HIST30060

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Photographs, taken on my own iPhone.

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.

During isolation, myself and many others turned to baking as a way to pass time and enjoy a treat that didn't require anyone to leave the house. Perhaps more than this though, I felt that whatever I was baking was something that I had complete control over, so long as I followed the recipe, and in 'these unprecedented times' as the tag-line goes, this little bit of certainty was precious.

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baking, isolation, hobbies, procrastinating, control, unprecedented, HIST30060

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Samantha Caine

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2020-08
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