On May 22, 2025, the government of the United Kingdom signed the much-discussed treaty transferring sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, which included a lease agreement for the ...

As rumours about talks to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece resurface, we get two experts to make the case for and against their return.

There is no question that the British Museum purchased the collection legally from Lord Elgin, who had acquired it with the full permission of the authorities. Elgin had not at first intended to ...

The Elgin Marbles were were taken from the Parthenon in Athens by the then British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Lord Elgin, between 1801 and 1805, and are now on display at the British Museum ...

The Parthenon Sculptures (AKA Elgin Marbles) were removed from the Acropolis in Greece between 1801 and 1805 at the instruction of the 7th Earl of Elgin. Although this was a different era, it wasn’t ...

The Elgin Marbles were legally acquired by the British Museum through an Act of Parliament in 1816, after the British government purchased them from Lord Elgin, ...

It doesn’t take much nous to see what’s going on with the Elgin Marbles. After the PM’s affectionate chat with the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the other day, Sir Keir Starmer ...

Colonialism imposed its control of the social production of wealth through military conquest and subsequent political dictatorship .

A poignant cultural protest, which took place at the British Museum on a sunny Saturday afternoon on 7 June 2014, still resonates. On that day, the world-renown Greek soprano, Sonia Theodoridou, ...