The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts
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Cited as an accessible overview of the looted-artifacts debate around the British Museum.
What it is
A Vox explainer on how many of the British Museum's treasures were taken during British imperial rule, focusing on the Benin Bronzes and requests for their return.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2020 to 2022.
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Recommends uneekname · 2022-09 · on “Caring for the only known full kākāpō feather cloak in the world”
I agree with you. I enjoyed this Vox video about how the British Museum holds many artifacts that were stolen. [0] [this video]
Cites bantunes · 2020-08 · on “Not all the facts fit the anti-colonialist narrative”
I recently heard about Benin and the British "punitive expedition" that looted the country in a Vox video, of all things, about the world's largest open crime scene - the British Museum [this video]
Cites dkd903 · 2021-08 · on “The British Library puts 1M newspaper pages online for free”
This is great. When is the British Museum returning all its 1000s of stolen artefacts to their rightful owners? Vox: The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts - [this video] Here is a snippet from: Dalrymple, William. The Anarchy (p. 21). Bloomsbury Publishing. Kindle Edition. "The last hereditary Welsh prince, the memorably named Owain Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, built Powis Castle as a craggy fort in the thirteenth century; the estate was his reward for abandoning Wales to the rule of the English monarchy. But its most spectacular treasures date from a much later period of English conquest and appropriation. For Powis is simply awash with loot from India, room after room of imperial plunder, e