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Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum

All nations have an excess of history. But none more so than the nation-states that were once nation-empires. The 1960s ...
The Art Newspaper

A brief history of the British Museum's central London home

The redesign of the Western Range of the British Museum, announced earlier this year, is the latest stage of a 272-year-long ...
Observer

Artist Hew Locke Confronts Colonialism at the British Museum

Hew Locke visits the British Museum in preparation for his exhibition. Richard Cannon “What have we here?” is the fruit of two years of Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke’s research at the British ...

Tributes paid to Battle of Imjin veteran

A museum has paid tribute to a Korean War veteran following his death aged 94. Brian Hamblett was born in Gloucester in 1931 ...
The New York Times

British Museum Announces Plan to Stop Thefts

The museum will overhaul its record keeping, but its leaders said that millions of items still would not be individually documented. By Alex Marshall Two months after it announced the firing of a ...
Stars and Stripes

Digital tour sheds light on Korean War fight, UK’s bloodiest battle since WWII

SEOUL, South Korea — British expatriates commemorating the United Kingdom’s role in the Korean War have launched a video walking tour marking their country’s bloodiest battle since World War II. The ...