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Hartwig Fischer to step down as British Museum director next year

He has been in the post since 2016.

The Independent UK

How the British Museum's new exhibition reveals China's Hidden Century through everyday lives

The face of the British Museum’s big summer show, China’s Hidden Century, is that of an elderly woman wearing jade earrings, dressed in a blue robe with ornate gold embroidery decorating its collar.

The Conversation

Loot, intransigence, and the darkening of a colonial blot

The return of cultural artefacts is a moral obligation which the West owes to its former colonies

The Hindu

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Edinburgh landmark named most 'overcrowded' tourist destination in Europe

The most "overcrowded" and "busy" tourist destinations in Europe have been revealed in new research, and a popular and historic Edinburgh spot has topped the list.

Daily Record

‘Share the Parthenon marbles’, mayor Sadiq Khan tells the British Museum

‘There’s a discussion to share some of this stuff’ Khan told a Greek newspaper

Evening Standard

‘Translation is an art’: why translators are battling for recognition

Like any author, translators want to receive credit for their work instead of being treated as an afterthought

The Guardian - UK

Controversy over poems at British Museum shows urgent need for more recognition for translators

The British Museum has had to apologise after a translator’s words were used without permission. Writer and translator Yilin Wang shared on Twitter that their translations of work by the Chinese feminist poet Qiu Jin appeared in the museum’s exhibition, China’s Hidden Century, without consent.

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British Museum staff to stage six-day strike next month

The move comes amid a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs in the civil service

Evening Standard

British Museum offers to pay translator after plagiarism row

Yilin Wang had translated passages from a Chinese revolutionary which were used in the China’s Hidden Century exhibition

The Guardian - UK

Translator alleges work on Chinese radical ‘plagiarised’ in British Museum show

Exclusive: Yilin Wang claims she did not receive any credit for translations of Qiu Jin’s work in the China’s Hidden Century exhibition

The Guardian - UK

'Curse' of the Titanic explained as five people are trapped on missing tourist submarine

Shahzada Dawood, a UK-based businessman and one of the richest men in the world, was on a trip to see the wreckage of the Titanic when their vessel went missing

Daily Mirror

China’s hidden century review: an ‘enthralling’ show at the British Museum

In 1796, when the sixth emperor acceded, the Qing presided over a third of the world’s population and one of the most prosperous empires in history. In 1912, the 11th and last emperor abdicated, aged 12, ending 2,000 years of dynastic rule, and paving the way for the modern Chinese…

The Week

British Museum ends BP sponsorship deal after 27 years

Campaigners hail split as a ‘massive victory’ , which marks a retreat of the fossil fuel giant from the British arts world

The Guardian - UK

AI is helping us read ancient Mesopotamian literature

[… who s]aw the Deep, […] the country,

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The Independent UK

Shortlist announced for Art Fund Museum Of The Year

The winning museum will be announced at a ceremony held in the British Museum in London on July 12.

The Guardian - UK

China’s Hidden Century review – a revelation from first to last

This beautifully curated show of more than 300 exhibits traces the resilience, innovation and decadence of 19th-century China – and the lamentable role of the British

Bangkok Post

Greece recovers hundreds of looted antiquities

ATHENS: Greece said it has recovered hundreds of looted artefacts including a second-century bronze statue of Alexander the Great from a notorious British antiquities dealer after a 17-year legal battle.

The Guardian - UK

Oxford University cuts ties with Sackler family over links with opioids

University follows other institutions in removing titles of family who make OxyContin painkiller

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Evening Standard

China’s Hidden Century at the British Museum review: marvellous and messy, but then that’s history

Hidden from us, not them, this packed 100 years tells a complex story of profound and rapid change

The Guardian - UK

China’s Hidden Century review – how opium and Christianity demolished a civilisation

From Looty the stolen dog to the story of the last emperor, via glittering gowns and bloody rebellions, this show has a shock round every corner

The Guardian - UK

George Osborne to lead £2.4bn investment management firm

Former chancellor adds to roster of jobs with role as chair of Lingotto, owned by Agnelli family’s Exor

The Independent UK

We want win-win solution on Elgin Marbles, says Greek prime minister

Greece has been campaigning for decades for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures

The Independent UK

Greek PM seeks 'innovative' solution to decades-old Parthenon Sculpture dispute with British Museum

Greece's prime minister says his government is exploring a “win-win” solution to one of the world’s most intractable cultural heritage disputes: The fate of the Parthenon Sculptures currently in the British Museum

ABC News

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk promises to personally accompany First Nations people to British Museum to recover artefacts

After passing a "watershed bill" to establish Indigenous truth-telling and healing, the premier promised to accompany First Nations people to the British Museum to reclaim stolen artefacts.

WEKU

Why the Koh-i-noor diamond won't make an appearance at King Charles III's coronation

The royal family has decided to leave the 105-carat gem out of this weekend's coronation ceremony. The Koh-i-noor has become a focus of anti-colonial anger. India wants it back.

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