Category: Material Culture

Foxes in hen houses – the theft of rare books from national libraries

Fox in the hen house; image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fox

A while back in June 2015 I attended a conference called The Written Heritage of Mankind in Peril at the British Library convened by the library, the Institute of Art and Law, the Union Internationale des Avocates, the Commission for Art Recovery, Hunters Solicitors and the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London.  … Continue reading Foxes in hen houses – the theft of rare books from national libraries →

The British Museum – ducking the questions?

Egyptian duck or ducking the Egyptian question? British Museum shop; photograph by Angela Sutton-Vane 2015

On Monday 13th July I attended a great workshop at the British Museum on Using Museum Archives (post to follow). It was an overcast, very humid day and I felt hot and flustered after my journey. The noise and heat in the central court was overwhelming so, with some time to spare, I tried to … Continue reading The British Museum – ducking the questions? →