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Sunday Times Magazine April 30th 2000
Renaissance Britain
Forget the Millennium Dome fiasco: all over the country a real cultural revolution is going on. From Falmouth to Dundee, there has been a lottery-funded frenzy to build exciting new monuments to our history, science and the arts. In this special issue we celebrate a new golden age
The great leap forward – History is likely to look back on this period as a classic era of British art, drama, architecture, music and much more. How did we suddenly become so civilised? Plus, a guide to the new buildings shooting up all over the land
The brutal truth – A shattering new permanent exhibition at the Imperial War Museum should stop anyone denying that the Holocaust really happened
Gems on the Thames – A fine collection of antique snuffboxes is nothing to get sniffy about
Culture club – We quiz the art pack – the bigwigs who are remaking and remodelling the way we see the nation’s treasures
Seen and not hoarded – With galleries reopening and more paintings coming out of museum closets, you don’t have to be artful to find great exhibitions
Relative Values – Charlotte Church, the teenage singer who has topped the classical charts, and her mother. Maria
Best of Times, Worst of Times – Bill Wyman, the former Rolling Stone, on how his education was rudely terminated
A Life in the Day of Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer and Naomi Campbell’s ex
72 pages. This issue is in very good condition throughout. There is a tiny tear on the cover
