Charles van Onselen’s 2019 volume The Night Trains is a harrowing but essential read about how South Africa’s gold mines were actually made, and who made them. This is not about intrepid financiers or brilliant geologists, but millions of Mozambicans who dug the gold.
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âWhen I first went to school I was in a completely alien environment,â he told
Playboy magazine about his first memories in Port Talbot, the steelmaking town in Wales where he grew up. âI can remember the smell of stale milk, drinking straws and wet coats, and sitting there absolutely petrified. That feeling stayed with me.â His teachers, classmates and parents would tell him over and over that he was too stupid for any job. He didnât have any friends and he would spend the afternoons drawing or playing the piano. Sometimes he would even miss his own birthday party.
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What goes into creating a royal fashion moment - from a highly-anticipated wedding dress, to a coronation outfit? That question is set to be explored in a new exhibition at Kensington Palace as it reopens to the public in June,
Royal Style in the Making, with the late Diana, Princess of Wales famous wedding gown taking centre stage.
The unique and intimate relationship between the Royal Family and their couturiers will be laid out in detail, with original sketches, fabric swatches and unseen photographs from the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection shown alongside the dresses themselves in order to demonstrate how ideas become historical reality.