The British Museum has been accused of celebrating fascist imagery and sexism in a new Roman Army exhibition. KCL's Dr Claire Millington seems to object to portraying history accurately, says Guy de la Bédoyère.
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The first museum to display the Benin bronzes in 1897 became the first to 'give them back' in 2022. But the truth is these 'returned' historical artefacts are vanishing into the ether.
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Nigeria has failed to look after the Benin bronzes it has and shouldn't be given any more, says leading Swiss ethnologist Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin as she opposes the restitution movement. They belong to humanity.
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If you though the 'trans' Roman Emperor museum stunt was ridiculous, in the U.S. there's a museum whose T. rex skeleton 'came out' as nonbinary back in 2017, proudly announcing its pronouns were they/them.
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We should always be sceptical of woke historical revisionism, says Guy de la Bédoyère. But in the case of 'trans' Emperor Elagabalus, the teenage popinjay really may have been partial to a bit of cross-dressing.
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One of the UK's most insignificant institutions of public learning, North Herts Museum, has provoked ridicule by relabelling the Roman Emperor Elagabalus with female pronouns, as he was supposedly a "trans woman".
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The authors of the new 'Trans Inclusive Culture' guidance for museums have tried to defend their work, but by claiming it doesn't say what it clearly does, says Caroline ffiske.
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The awful new trans guidance for museums reveals that the 'Public Sector Equality Duty' in the Equality Act is being used to claim a comprehensive duty of trans activism. It must be repealed, says Caroline ffiske.
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The humourless comedian Hannah Gadsby has much to thank one of the twentieth century’s titans of art. By placing him in the stockade of feminist disapproval, the Australian was picking the easiest target and avoiding the most profound questions of his oeuvre. To be so personal, and play the man with such indignation, is the […]
Cambodia has often featured in the Western imagination as a place of plunder and pilfering. Temples and artefacts of exquisite beauty have exercised the interest of adventurers and buccaneers who looted with almost kleptocratic tendency. In 1924, the French novelist and future statesman André Malraux, proved himself one of Europe’s greatest adventurers in making off […]
