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During the first months of the coronavirus lockdown, Claire Foster-Gilbert, director of Westminster Abbey Institute, wrote twelve weekly letters to Britain’s public servants. Intended to strengthen their response to the rapidly changing needs of an increasingly unfamiliar world, these letters chart a heroic journey through initial uncertainty and crushing trials toward unprecedented unity and transformed resolve. Rather than bunker down, she asks us to consider: what might we discover, imagine, and change for the better as a result of the pandemic? Letters from the Lockdown presents the twelve original letters alongside new, deeply personal accounts from public servants on the job. Together, this collection provides an opportunity to reflect on how public values meet practice as the global crisis unfolds.

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A moving chronicle of lockdown that tracks Britain's journey of self-discovery and suggests the road to a kinder world. --Mark Easton, BBC Home Editor

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Claire Foster-Gilbert is the founder director of the Westminster Abbey Institute. A public philosopher and author, Foster-Gilbert has played an instrumental role in the medical research ethics field and has led efforts to shift the Church's thinking on environmental issues; Dawn Butler is Labour MP for Brent; Peter Howitt is Director in the Department for Health and Social Care; Treena Fleming is a Detective Chief Superintendent.

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