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✨ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: History books,Politics books,Books,Culture,Essays,Brexit ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: THis huge collection of essays by 43 different authors, including seven princes, four barons, one lady and three knights of the realm, is perhaps the closest we will ever come to quasi-formal thinking about the causes and consequences of Brexit. Its editor, Sir Anthony Seldon, is an honorary historian at 10 Downing Street and has written definitive works on successive British administrations in the twenty-first century.However, the phrase “English nationalism” appears precisely once in its six hundred pages –…

🔥 Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Art and design,Art,Culture,Sculpture,Exhibitions,Tate Modern,Cuba ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A A huge color photograph of an ancient ruined site greets you outside the dramatic Ana Mendieta exhibition, and immediately tells you that this is going to be different. This sort of thing looks more like it belongs in a British Museum exhibition about a lost pre-Columbian civilization than the concrete fortress of the Blavatnik Wing at Tate Modern. But in her imagination, this is where Mendieta belongs, too. Born in Havana, Cuba in 1948, she was sent to…

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sam Neill,Film,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: I He interviewed Sam Neill in 2024, remotely: He was in Vancouver filming the Netflix series Untamed, but we were there to talk about a twisty Australian courtroom drama, The Twelve. He was immediately honest. He said his second season was "much stronger" than the first, which was absolutely true, as the first was a bit corny, and the second showed more confidence in its audience and our tolerance for nuance.But actors, in general, will never say anything remotely critical…

✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Sam Neill,Film,Culture,New Zealand,Australia news 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Friends, peers and fans of Sam Neill were quick to pay tribute to the actor, following his sudden death on Monday at the age of 78.Steven Spielberg, who directed Neal in Jurassic Park, said he was "saddened" to hear of Neal's death. “Sam was exceptionally helpful,” he added. “It was difficult for him to play a character who acted as if the children were messy and smelly because that was the opposite of a father who loved his…

🔥 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Heritage,Culture,UK cost of living crisis,Derbyshire,Emily Brontë,UK news,England,Libraries,Books 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: When Kate, a 47-year-old contract worker, came face to face with Charlotte Brontë's handwriting during her visit to Chatsworth House, the avid reader, who counts Jane Eyre as her favorite book, struggled to contain her excitement.“I've had some time,” she said. "I just thought: 'Wow, that was actually what Charlotte Brontë was writing there on that page.' That was very special.This was her first visit inside Chatsworth House. Although she has lived just 90 minutes…