Episode #24 - Alastair Owens: Religion in inner cities and how Covid-19 has changed our relationship with home

This week John spoke to Alastair Owens, Professor of Historical Geography at Queen Mary University, London about his research on the role of the Church and religion more generally in the inner cities. Alastair also spoke about how the Covid pandemic has changed our relationship with our homes as well as some of his other projects.

Many thanks to Pearson for sponsoring season 4 of GeogPod.

Some links from the pod

Urban Vicarages project

Museum of the Home

Stay Home: Rethinking the Domestic during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Alastair's article on the archaeology of poor Victorian households