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Plunder for saleA Chinese Mandarin rank badge in silk with Phoenix flying towards the sun. "Part of the loot from the sack of Peking...

Plunder for sale

A Chinese Mandarin rank badge in silk with Phoenix flying towards the sun. "Part of the loot from the sack of Peking during the Boxer Rising."

On sale in Norwich, March 26/27. Yours for up to £300. https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/keys-aylsham-salerooms/catalogue-id-srkey11175/lot-7fedd880-021d-44b0-99b9-b29901764183

If you are looking to break out of the Amazon eco-system and get a good book at the same time ....The Prince and the Plunder seems very...

If you are looking to break out of the Amazon eco-system and get a good book at the same time ....

The Prince and the Plunder seems very affordable in the Kobo store at the moment https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/the-prince-and-the-plunder-2 ...

Just saying

Will this be enough to clear the loot logjam...Cambridge under pressure to return Benin Bronzes as Nigeria promises museum displayOfficials...

Will this be enough to clear the loot logjam...

Cambridge under pressure to return Benin Bronzes as Nigeria promises museum display
Officials say the artefacts will not go into private collection, as previously feared https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/26/cambridge-under-pressure-to-hand-back-benin-bronzes-nigeria/

🧵2/2 Read all about it in ... The Prince and the Plunder https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/the-prince-and-the-plunder/

🧵2/2 Read all about it in ... The Prince and the Plunder https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/the-prince-and-the-plunder/

🧵1/2 A great night at London's Magdala Tavern. Best known as the site where Ruth Ellis shot her boyfriend in 1955, leading to her...

🧵1/2 A great night at London's Magdala Tavern. Best known as the site where Ruth Ellis shot her boyfriend in 1955, leading to her becoming the last woman to be hanged in Britain. Less well known for its link to another event - the British storming and looting of the Ethiopian fortress of Magdala in 1868.

Happy 173rd Birthday to the magnificent Lady Meux - a butcher's daughter turned showgirl who became one of the richest women in Britain....

Happy 173rd Birthday to the magnificent Lady Meux - a butcher's daughter turned showgirl who became one of the richest women in Britain. Among many other things, she bought looted Ethiopian manuscripts then left them to Ethiopia in her will https://www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/category/the-plunder/manuscripts/previously-lady-meux-collection/

An appeal. Are there any handwriting decipherers out there?Can you work out the word hiding behind this crossing-out? It's from an...

An appeal. Are there any handwriting decipherers out there?

Can you work out the word hiding behind this crossing-out? It's from an English CofE register of baptisms in 1884. For other children, the field is used for parent's profession - Labourer, Gardener ...

Have been staring at it for ages.

I found this tied to my gate last night. Anyone recognise it? Am I in peril?

I found this tied to my gate last night. Anyone recognise it? Am I in peril?

🧵3/3 Was it the “tarboosh cap”, still in Britain's Royal Collection? Or was is the silver-gilded crown, returned in 1924,...

🧵3/3 Was it the “tarboosh cap”, still in Britain's Royal Collection?

Or was is the silver-gilded crown, returned in 1924, probably looted again by the Italians, and now missing?

Find out more in this post published by the Centre français des études éthiopiennes https://cfee.hypotheses.org/11131

🧵2/3 Was it the famous golden, triple-tiered crown now in the V&A Museum in London? Was it the "royal cap", returned by...

🧵2/3 Was it the famous golden, triple-tiered crown now in the V&A Museum in London?

Was it the "royal cap", returned by Queen Elizabeth II in 1965 and now in the National Palace Museum in Addis Ababa? ...

🧵1/3 Ethiopia's King of Kings Tewodros II was crowned 170 years ago this week. But which of the at least four crowns looted by...

🧵1/3 Ethiopia's King of Kings Tewodros II was crowned 170 years ago this week. But which of the at least four crowns looted by British troops in 1868 was used in the ceremony?

Alula Pankhurst, Eloi Ficquet, Margaux Herman and Xavier de Saint Chamas run through the options ...

🧵 2/2 Signed Major Stephen Sewall (1657-1725) - militia commander, county and court official, merchant, pirate hunter and ... Clerk of...

🧵 2/2 Signed Major Stephen Sewall (1657-1725) - militia commander, county and court official, merchant, pirate hunter and ... Clerk of the Court at the Salem Witch Trials!

Yours for £300 - £400 https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/component/com_bidding/id,144335/layout,details/view,timed/

🧵1/2 "An Inventory of a parcell of Plunder Said to be taken by Capt Chadwell & Company in ye Sloop flying horse from on board a...

🧵1/2 "An Inventory of a parcell of Plunder Said to be taken by Capt Chadwell & Company in ye Sloop flying horse from on board a french Barque which they burnt ... brought up to Salem ...

"93 Beaver Skins... 12 baggs of feathers..." https://www.forumauctions.co.uk/component/com_bidding/id,144335/layout,details/view,timed/

A piece of Ethiopia's Maqdala plunder comes under the spotlight in The Art Newspaper A diptych linking Albrecht Dürer and Christian...

A piece of Ethiopia's Maqdala plunder comes under the spotlight in The Art Newspaper

A diptych linking Albrecht Dürer and Christian Ethiopia was likely taken from Portugal to Ethiopia by Jesuit missionaries. Quoted: Zoe Cormack, Alula Pankhurst and Verena Krebs
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/21/investigation-shines-fresh-light-on-british-museums-looted-durer-inspired-diptych

The British Museum's man, Richard Rivington Holmes, only managed to spend £113.4 of his £1,000 at the infamous auction of loot. Other...

The British Museum's man, Richard Rivington Holmes, only managed to spend £113.4 of his £1,000 at the infamous auction of loot. Other things, he looted himself (for free) or got the credit for (the manuscripts). In key ways he was "strikingly unsuccessful". A must read. 4/4

Zoe Cormack, who works at the museum, dug through piles of correspondence and minutes in the archives to follow the paper trail - things I...

Zoe Cormack, who works at the museum, dug through piles of correspondence and minutes in the archives to follow the paper trail - things I glossed over in a few paragraphs in my book as I tried to keep up with our prince. She finds some real treasure. My favourite ...3/4

It looks into how the British Museum, for the first and last time in its history, ended up sending one of its own officers to be embedded in...

It looks into how the British Museum, for the first and last time in its history, ended up sending one of its own officers to be embedded in an invasion of another country, with £1,000 in his pocket and the power of the army at his back, to look for loot on the battlefield ... 2/4

Another @lootplunder review in four postsAnyone interested in loot, plunder, museums, Ethiopia, empire - anyone following this feed in other...

Another @lootplunder review in four posts

Anyone interested in loot, plunder, museums, Ethiopia, empire - anyone following this feed in other words - should read Zoe Cormack's article "The British Museum and the Abyssinian Campaign, 1867–8" https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-229X.13439 ...1/4

The Prince and the Plunder paperback is here!Get your copy at: Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1803996501/?tag=wwwthehisto0b-21Bookshop...

The Prince and the Plunder paperback is here!

Get your copy at:
Amazon - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1803996501/?tag=wwwthehisto0b-21
Bookshop - https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-prince-and-the-plunder-how-britain-took-one-small-boy-and-hundreds-of-treasures-from-ethiopia-andrew-heavens/7618225?ean=9781803996509
Waterstones - https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781803996509
…...and lots of other places.

There are discounts if you shop around.

Is the restitution slowdown mostly caused by turmoil in Europe, or turmoil in Nigeria and its last-minute switches over who gets the Benin...

Is the restitution slowdown mostly caused by turmoil in Europe, or turmoil in Nigeria and its last-minute switches over who gets the Benin 'Bronzes'?

"Turmoil in Europe is hampering plans ... to return colonial-era heritage. But the UK, once a laggard ..." https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/14/as-restitutions-slow-across-europe-uk-may-be-poised-for-progress