In this dispatch from the field, Yannick Lengkeek discusses how his observations of people playing games during the COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal sparked a new trajectory in his research and led him to reconsider the role of ‘play’ during the…
Introducing: Yannick Lengkeek, PhD Candidate (Portugal)
Hi Yannick. Could you start by telling us how it was that you first became interested in everyday life as a historical subject? Hi Huw! That’s a tough question. In a way, my intellectual curiosity was always centered on human…