On 16 March 2020, as a result of the emerging Covid-19 virus, the UK government introduced several measures that impacted our lives in ways never seen before. We were instructed to stay at home, wear facemasks if we went out, and wherever possible to work from home. Schools and shops were closed, streets and roads became empty, our travel within the UK and abroad was restricted and, in many ways, life in the country came to a standstill. With the gradual arrival of vaccines, these restrictions were steadily lifted until, in the first quarter of 2022, the majority had been left behind.
As the UK emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic it became increasingly obvious that as with all traumatic national events, such as war, financial depressions and pandemics, change had taken place. Many of these were social and economic but some also affected geographical patterns.
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