Tim James explores how the Covid-19 pandemic contributed to our understanding of the divine importance of physical place in our modern world

“You must stay at home.” Those were the famous words spoken to the nation by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on the 23rd March 2020. They were just five short, one-syllable words but they were words that had the profound impact of ushering in the first lockdown which confined each of us to our homes and local communities. 

Little did we know how much those words would go on to impact our lives and shape our communities over the coming weeks, months and years. Even now, almost three years on from the beginning of the first national lockdown, we continue to disentangle, analyse and attempt to make sense of the radical changes that took place as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic… (Register to read the rest of the article)