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It began in 2018, with the announcement that India-based tech giant Infosys would open a Hartford hub employing 1,000 people by 2023. Four additional prominent tech companies have since followed, announcing Hartford outposts with large staffs to service regional industries and beyond. “You have seen a number of global tech and information technology firms choose Hartford as a hub for their East Coast operations and I think it is a reflection of a number of Hartford’s strengths,” Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin said in a recent interview.

Tim Bryan is convinced the United States is poised to experience a significant onshoring trend. But he’s not a manufacturing executive frustrated by pandemic-induced supply chain issues, which have left key materials stuck on cargo ships or in foreign lands. He’s a tech executive who believes back-office IT work — often shipped overseas during the last quarter-century to low-cost destinations — will come back to the United States, as companies go through a 21st-century digitization process, and the pandemic leaves behind a more decentralized American workforce.

Brittany and Justin Bedard sipped drinks at the bar inside the Parkville Market shortly after 2 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, killing time before heading to an appointment at nearby Witchhouse Tattoo for romantic body art. The Bedards, both 30, live in Manchester and run small businesses. Together and separately they’ve repeatedly visited Hartford’s Parkville neighborhood to stop at the market, an alternative arts center, a brewery or to enjoy recreational ax throwing.

Picture gallery: The UK's first newspaper colour supplement, the Sunday Times Magazine, is marking its 60th anniversary on 4 February.

As it prepares to reopen, photographer Richard Young remembers the star-studded glory days of London's once most fashionable haunt