David Abulafia explains why the Rosetta Stone should stay in London in the British Museum, where it...
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Benin and Beyond
David Abulafia on whether the tide is turning on restitution
The British Museum shouldn’t make foreigners pay
The idea that foreign visitors should pay for entry to the British Museum has been floated recently...
Why won’t this museum let women see its Igbo Mask?
The decision by the Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum in the University of Oxford to withdraw an...
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
Cambridge University Press has seen fit to change the name of its esteemed historical journal Anglo...
The Danger of Returning the Ghanaian ‘Crown Jewels’
The British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum have announced that they are to return gold...
Tracey Emin and the problem with museum trustees
In an article first published by The Spectator and republished here with their kind permission...
Was the Black Death racist?
In this article recently published in The Spectator and republished by History Reclaimed with...
Why is Netflix pretending that Cleopatra was black?
A new Netflix ‘docuseries’ looking at the lives of powerful women in history asserts that Cleopatra...
Noel Malcolm, The Elgin Marbles: Keep, Lend or Return?
Discussion of the return of the Elgin Marbles to Athens has been guided largely by emotion rather...
