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  • Keeping Their Marbles – ‘an outstanding achievement… wide-ranging and incisive.’

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on November 30, 2018December 11, 2018

    In October 1860, during the Second Opium War, British and French forces attacked the Summer Palace near what was then Peking. Built of jade and marble and filled with treasures crafted exclusively for the imperial family, it had been described as a “dazzling cavern of human fantasy”. Three days of looting left it a smoking ruin. Eyewitnesses told of soldiers carrying off strings of pearls and pencil cases set with diamonds. The empress’s pekinese was also taken and, tactlessly renamed “Looty”, presented to Queen Victoria.

    Keeping Their Marbles
  • Elgin Marbles Are Not Political Pawns

    Posted by Dr Tiffany Jenkins on January 11, 2016January 17, 2019

    “A HIGHLY provocative, unfortunate and very rude gesture”, is how David Hill, from the campaign to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece, described, on the Today programme, the loan of one of the sculptures to …

    elgin marbles, Scotsman
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