Word from the Cloisters – thirty summers on

26 June 2025, The Tablet

The launch of the Sony PlayStation, the premiere of Toy Story, the start of the dot-com era: hard to believe all these happened three decades ago this year.

On Tuesday 17 June, more than 1,000 ­people – including Munira Subašić, president of Mothers of Srebrenica, Baroness Arminka Helić, who fled war-torn Bosnia when she was 23, London mayor Sadiq Khan and MP Priti Patel – gathered in St Paul’s Cathedral to mark the anniversary.

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