Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown
by James Attlee
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As Britain entered lockdown in the spring of 2020, images and signs proliferated in its windows, symptoms of the human desire to communicate as face-to-face contact became impossible. When restrictions temporarily eased, writer James Attlee began ringing doorbells in his hometown of Oxford. On doorsteps and park benches, on council estates and among genteel terraces, he recorded the voices of those briefly emerging from isolation. He won the trust of rainbow painters and anti-vaxxers, a show more Covid nurse, an LGBTQ+ artist, a VE Day celebrator and Black Lives Matter protesters, as well as frontline workers in a bakery and a supermarket. Their words, Attlee's pithy observations and 16 pages of his photographs makeUnder the Rainbow a unique record of an extraordinary year and a tribute to creativity and resilience. show lessTags
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James Attlee is the author of Isolarion: A Different Oxford Journey, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He works in art publishing in London.
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- Nonfiction, Sociology, History, General Nonfiction
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- 942.5740862 — History & geography History of Europe England and Wales East Midlands Oxfordshire City of Oxford
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- RA644 .C67 .A88 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Public health. Hygiene. Preventive medicine Disease (Communicable and noninfectious) and public
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