Professor Howard Williams has written a review of Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections, together with Duncan Sayer’s Ethics and Burial Archaeology – which I found to be an excellent introduction to the debate over …
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Press coverage for Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections
I’m posting links to the various bits of press coverage for my book Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections Reviews will follow at some stage. The Guardian Why ancient remains are a bone of contention …
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Mourning in America
Article in the Spectator New York is in the grip of memorial mania In early 1991, the construction of a federal office building in lower Manhattan was halted after an unexpected discovery. Underneath the ground, …
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Newsnight Review
I was on Newsnight Review talking about art and climate change. Johan Hari, Simon Armitage, Jonathan Bate were on the panel as well, which was chaired by Martha Kearney. We discussed the films 2012 and …
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Repatriation, Restitution, and Reparations
Repatriation, Restitution, and Reparations Panel discussion at the British Academy History is written by the winners, it is commonly said. But heritage-the history that we shape to our own purposes-is increasingly shaped by the losers. …
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Sense and sensitivity
Article in the Spectator Museums are restricting access to certain artefacts so as not to give offence. Read the