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The relationship between history and culture is undeniable, though complex.

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Culture can be defined as those social practices whose prime aim is signification [1] , i.e. making orders of "sense" for the world we live in. History is the cognitive, unfinished account of the happenings of the past. In this discourse, which aims to define a common vein between history and culture, we attempt to discover - the meaning, the representation for this relationship. Semiotics [2] demands to bring to the foreground a signifier to proceed with the analysis. What really, is the visible metric or academic evidence that we have to prosper our understanding? Art! The temporariness and impermanence of history as well as the idea of differential natural selection in culture find themselves imbibed in the various art forms over the years. Citing [3] , The "culture concept" in England has much to do with the organization of historical knowledge for adolescents in the British school system, here particular theories of the child-mind and application of P...