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I had many positive responses to my emails, and I have slowly been able to update the database so that it can be made publicly available. Many of the projects were collated during the first and second wave of lockdowns in the UK, but I also did some research myself to find if there were any more recent projects. By collating these projects, it gives a voice to the lives of these people during the pandemic.ĭuring my temporary job as Covid-19 Testimony Project Researcher, I communicated with over 150 projects that fit the criteria of being a Covid-19 testimony project. It includes a range of areas across the UK, such as London boroughs like Hackney, cities like Birmingham and Bristol, and also groups of people such as the d/Deaf community and the LGBTQ+ community.
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Many of the projects included in the database relied on online submissions of personal diaries, artwork and photography (amongst other things) to reflect on how our lives changed during the pandemic. Without the ease of face-to-face interviews, we have had to get creative. This database was created as a way to document Covid-19 testimony projects around the UK and to enable people to do their own research into these projects to find out more about peoples lives during the pandemic. For oral history, the pandemic completely threw face-to-face interviews out of the window, and so we have had to adapt. Nearly two years of social distancing, wearing masks and living in ‘bubbles’ has changed how we see the world and other people. I think we can all say that Covid-19 turned our world upside down. Credit: CDC/ Alissa Eckert, MSMI Dan Higgins, MAMS. This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. In this blog Lucy Pinkney, Covid-19 Testimony Project Researcher, writes about her work on the database. Today, the British Library publishes a database of testimony collections that were created over the last two years, which document the UK's experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic.