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Ghosts of the British Museum : a true story of colonial loot and restless objects / Noah Angell ; with illustrations by Hendrick Wittkopf.
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Angell, Noah, 1980-
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Ghosts of the British Museum : a true story of colonial loot and restless objects / Noah Angell ; with illustrations by Hendrick Wittkopf.
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London : Monoray, 2024.
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xxii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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What if the British Museum isn't a house of learning, but a vast sinkhole of still-bubbling historic injustice? What if it presents us not with a carefully ordered cross section of history but is instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot swarming with volatile and errant spirits? When artist and writer Noah Angell first heard murmurs of ghostly sightings at the British Museum he had to find out more. What started as a trickle soon became a landslide as staff old and new, from guards of formidable build to respected curators, brought forth testimonies of their inexplicable supernatural encounters. It became clear that the source of the disturbances was related to the Museum's contents - unquiet objects, holy plunder, and restless human remains protesting their enforced stay within the colonial collection's cases, cabinets and deep underground vaults. Be it wraiths associated with genocides, uprooted sacred beings or the afterglow of deaths that occurred inside the museum itself, according to those who have worked there, the museum is heaving with profound spectral disorder. Ghosts of the British Museum fuses storytelling, folklore and history, digs deep into our imperial past and unmasks the world's oldest national museum as a site of ongoing conflict, where under the guise of preservation, restless objects are held against their will. It now appears that the objects are fighting back.
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British Museum
British Museum -- History
Ghosts -- England -- London
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