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Dune: Part Three (2026) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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Santa Maria del Fiore Florence, Italy

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Cuypers Library, Amsterdam

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The Music is Black: A British Story - V&A East

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Giselle - Dutch National Ballet

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Lightning over London (22nd June 2026) via. @/secret.london

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50 Years since The Soweto Uprising

On the 16th June 1976 high school students in the Soweto Township staged a protest against new education laws implemented by the government. What began as a peaceful walkout of lessons resulted in one of the most significant moments during resistance against apartheid.

The uprising is often credited for the resurgence of the international anti -apartheid movement as well as creating the groundwork for the next two decades of protests styles in South Africa. Protests across the country took place in response with workers strikes and university students protesting the killing of children.

Most of the victims shot by the police on this day in would only be in their 60s today. One of the most known victims was Hector Pieterson. He was just 12 years old. Today he’d be 62. Events like this have happened within living memory. We can’t let them be forgotten.

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Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé in Mayerling photographed by Florian Moshammer

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ATONEMENT (2007) dir. Joe Wright

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I was sad so went to the bookshops

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Vivienne Westwood X Brintons Carpets

Throughout the 1990s, Brintons Carpets collaborated with Vivian Westwood on multiple advertising campaigns. Westwood designed and created looks made from carpets and rugs Brintons produced. The result, an eccentric and eclectic selection of looks, drawing inspiration from the 1700s all the way up to a more contemporary, modern feel.

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Historical Mirror Selfies [Source: Smithsonian, Vintage Everyday, Galerie Karsten Greve]

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The Veiled Vestal by Raffaelle Monti, Chatsworth House

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The Odyssey (2026) dir. Christopher Nolan

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Queen Guinevere’s Maying (1901) by John Collier

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What if I have gotten love all wrong? What if I’ve been slaving away, reaching my arm in to prise words and feeling out of the mouth of someone who didn’t have it in them, not for me? I’ve been treating lovelike a noun, like a trophy I won ages ago and have left to gather dust in a cabinet. But in every single one of those instances today love has been a verb, an action. And not an action that requires Herculean effort, either. Take up here, now. Love is floating around serenely, like feathers, in this quiet space.

~ Why Did You Stay? by Rebecca Humphries

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Pointe Skirt by Darinika Atelier