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Nancy Durrant

Cultural Capital: orphan superheroes at the Foundling Museum and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Cultural Capital

Welcome to this week’s edition of Cultural Capital. We’re digging into the myth of the orphan superhero at the Foundling Museum in their new exhibition, Superheroes: Orphans and Origins - 125 years in Comics; we’ve got a bit of Anglo-Saxon bling in Thing of the Week and I review the latest installment in the Fantastic Beasts franchise, The Secrets of Dumbledore.

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