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The first four titles recommended by the Duchess have been posted to The Reading Room Instagram account. Camilla has suggested followers pick up The Mirror & the Light, the final instalment of Dame Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, along with Restless by William Boyd, Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens and The Architect’s Apprentice by Elif Shafak.
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Camilla is sharing her passion for reading with royal fans, officially launching today her own personal book club online. And she is doing so on Instagram, where readers, fans and critics are allowed to leave their opinions and comments despite the recent flurry of online hate experienced by the Duchess of Cornwall.
The account has also shared two IGTVs of a video call conversation between the Duchess and Mackesy, in which the pair chat about his writing. The Duchess praises his book as something to ‘make friends happier’, relating that she’s ‘read it so many times’ and calling it ‘an easy read but a deep read’. Other posts so far include an image of a copy of
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse standing pride of place in the library at Clarence House, as well as special insights like illustrations and audiobook extracts.
Ahead of the official launch of Camilla’s project on 15 January, an Instagram last Friday announced: ‘One week to go! Join us next Friday at 11am when we reveal the four books The Duchess has chosen for Season One of The Reading Room.’ The next post offers details of ‘a Book Club Kit’ for each book, consisting of ‘a set of questions you can use to explore the themes of the book and spark discussions with friends.’
The Atlantic
Trump Is Banned. Who Is Next?
Tech giants must not treat their crackdown on the president’s social accounts as an edge case. The social web should be different now.
January 9, 2021
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Updated at 10:59 a.m. ET on January 11, 2021.
It happened slowly, and then all at once. After years of sparring, the internet’s most powerful moderators deplatformed their most famous troll: the president of the United States. Facebook has blocked Donald Trump’s account indefinitely. So have Snapchat, Twitch, Shopify; even one of the Trump campaign’s email providers has cut it off. At the time of writing, Trump still has his YouTube channel, but the company says it is accelerating its enforcement action. It was a Friday Night Massacre of platform bans.
Thursday 21 January 2021, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
The Charterhouse is a beautiful complex of buildings and grounds with a history dating back to 1348, in Smithfield, in the borough of Islington, London. Today, it remains an alms-house, a private residence, a chapel, and a museum.
In partnership with The Poetry Society, The Charterhouse’s Young Community is excited to offer two free online writing workshops to 18-30 year olds.
In the first session of
Ruffs & Rituals, you’ll draw inspiration from the portraits in the Charterhouse’s historic Great Chamber and create poems which explore clothing’s potential to empower and separate us. Bristol’s City Poet Caleb Parkin will help you find the connection between – eg – your favourite hoodie and the fancy cravat of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1628 – 1687). You’ll ask yourself: how does a 21st century rebel dress? Who’s going to fix 2021, and what will they be wearing?