Help us to document the current coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and create a valuable record for future researchers by telling us about your experiences.

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We are committed to ensuring that we protect your personal data. We will use your name and email address to contact you only in relation to the COVID-19 Diary Project and will delete these once the project has been completed. When you join the COVID-19 Diary Project you will be given a unique reference number (URN) which will be associated with your ocation and birth year only. All diary submissions will be filed under this URN only and will not be associated with your name or email address. By taking part in the COVID-19 Diary Project you understand that your submissions will be stored as part of the collection at Dr Jenner's House, Museum and Garden and available to researchers in perpetuity (unless you ask us to remove your data). You give permission for us and other researchers to reproduce extracts from your submissions in print, in physical exhibitions and online.

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Guest User 26/06/2020 Guest User 26/06/2020

Our lockdown

For Digital Takeover Day, we’ve granted collections volunteer Abbie access to the COVID-19 Diary Project entries to see what life has been like for our diary contributors since the world was turned upside down by COVID-19. In this post, Abbie shares what she found, what the general feelings have been during this unusual time, and how people’s lives have been impacted.

Guest User 27/04/2020 Guest User 27/04/2020

Documenting the pandemic

We are a museum of Edward Jenner and the history of vaccination, but we are also a museum of public health and the history of disease. In our collection we hold documents and objects relating to the ways in which we’ve sought to tackle and overcome disease, before and after Jenner. It seems only right, therefore, that we also document the history of this current pandemic. But we need your help to do this.