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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

UNBELIEVABLE: Bereaved families withdraw support for uk covid tapestry | History Defined

Ekow Eshun, who is steering the Covid tapestry project
Ekow Eshun, who is steering the Covid tapestry project, hopes it will be a ‘lasting tribute’. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

Britain’s Covid experience is to be woven into an official tapestry, following a tradition running from the Norman conquest to the D-day landings. But some bereaved families have already withdrawn their participation.

Stories from the pandemic will be captured in warp and weft by artists in a work commissioned by the chair of the UK-wide public inquiry into the pandemic, Heather Hallett.

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