Links

Campaign to End Loneliness, UK

Carr, Sam, ‘The loneliness myth: what our shared stories of feeling alone reveal about why you can’t ‘fix’ this very human experience’, The Conversation (2 July 2024)

Centre for Loneliness Studies, Sheffield Hallam University

The Center for Reformation and Early Modern Studies (CREMS), University of Birmingham

Loneliness and Community, University of Exeter

The Loneliness Epidemic, Wellcome Collection

Loneliness and Social Isolation in Mental Health Network, UCL

Moved Apart: Communicated Experiences of Separation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (funded by the Swedish Research Council; see here and here)

‘Pathologies of Solitude, 18th–21st Centuries’, Queen Mary, University of London and the Wellcome Trust

Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions

Bailey, Martha, ‘All By Myself’, History Today, 71.3 (2021)

Clifton, Thomas, ‘Humanities and the Essence of Society’, Let’s Talk About Literature (10 August 2021)

Kidd, Ian James, ‘Loneliness and the interpersonal connection’, paper given at the ‘Loneliness and Mental Health’ event, University of Birmingham (18 May 2022)

Motta, Valeria, and Lisa Bortolotti, ‘Is loneliness a pathology?’, Perspectives (n. d.)

Pullin, Naomi, ‘Domestic Solitude in Early Modern Britain’, Solitudes: Past and Present (5 May 2020)

Pullin, Naomi, ‘Solitude and Sociability in Early Modern Protestant Dissent’, Solitudes: Past and Present (11 October 2022)

Ratcliffe, Sophie, ‘‘A painful absence all of the time’: The best descriptions of loneliness in literature’, The Guardian (5 October 2023)

Taylor, Barbara, ‘The Art of Solitude’, Solitudes: Past and Present (20 February 2019)

Vincent, David, ‘The history of solitude has never been more relevant’, Independent (9 April 2020)

Worsley, Amelia, ‘A history of loneliness’, The Conversation (9 March 2018)

Yip, Hannah, and Thomas Clifton, ‘From Solitude to Loneliness: Preaching and Meditating on Marriage and Widowhood in Early Modern Britain’, Solitudes: Past and Present (7 September 2021)

Yip, Hannah, and Thomas Clifton, ‘Is loneliness an exclusively “modern” epidemic?’, Perspectives (8 July 2021)

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