WHS AND THE
CHALLENGES
OF COVID-19
By Martin Roberts By a strange coincidence, the last task I performed before leaving the school site for the lockdown in March 2020 was to take delivery of a pallet of some 500 copies of “The House on the Hill”, the history of Winchester House. As I drove home, I reflected on how little the school archives had contained about the human details of world-changing events and their effects on school life. Wartime WHS, for example, still lived in the memories of those who had been pupils at the time, but no-one had written a contemporary account of either World War from the point of view of how the school had changed. Similarly, the great Spanish Flu pandemic of the immediate post World War One years is scarcely mentioned. So, for the benefit of future generations, here is an attempt to relate how Covid-19 came upon us in the spring of 2020. 2 . HOUSE . ISSUE 14
