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Author: Carolyn Howitt
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780714130354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title is a quiz book, suitable for children and parents alike, on different aspects of the ancient world - the Greeks, the Romans, and more.
Author: Pippa Goodhart
Publisher:
Published: 2021-03-30
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781788005500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaptivating picture book filled with hundreds of amazing artefacts - what will you choose at the British Museum?
Author: Dan Hicks
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781786806833
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWalk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
Author: Mr. Ian Beetlestone
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Published: 2020-07-28
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 0711251053
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPay a visit to London and a black mini cab will probably be one the first things you will see. The London taxi drivers are almost as famous as the black cabs in which they drive, this is mainly due to their in-depth knowledge of London and ability in taking their occupants to their desired destination amid the congestion and the chaos that you often find when travelling through London’s streets. London taxi drivers go through stringent training to obtain their licence, they need to pass “The Knowledge”, a test which is amongst the hardest to pass in the world, and has been described as ‘like having an atlas of London implanted into your brain’. The test requires you to master no fewer than 320 basic routes, all of the 25,000 streets that are scattered within the basic routes and approximately 20,000 landmarks and places of public interest that are located within a six-mile radius of Charing Cross. This book breaks the test down into a series of head-scratching questions and features enough trivia about the capital to surprise even born and bred Londoners. It’s the perfect gift for anyone who thinks they know London inside-out, or wants to learn more!
Author: Paul Bajoria
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 1473531985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK‘The nerdiest and longest-running quiz around’ The Spectator Have you got what it takes to tackle Radio 4's most fiendish quiz? Question: A fictional criminal psychologist, a former Conservative minister, and the eponymous protagonist of a Peter Hedges novel, might all serve on the board alongside some big cheeses. Can you explain?* The Round Britain Quiz is the oldest broadcast quiz anywhere in the world. Created in 1947 it has built and maintained a cult following from across the generations. Each series sees six teams from around the UK competing against each other to solve a series of seriously cryptic clues, with a chairman giving a steer on how to get to the answer. Compiled by long-serving series producer, Paul Bajoria, and with an introduction from the Chairman, BBC journalist Tom Sutcliffe, The Round Britain Quiz Book features 250 of the toughest and most challenging questions from the last 70 years as well as many new and exclusive conundrums, drawing on unpredictable fields of knowledge, to truly test the nation. *Answer: They might all be found on a cheeseboard, as accompaniments to the cheese. The psychologist referred to is ‘Fitz’ in the TV series Cracker, the former MP is Eric Pickles, and Gilbert Grape is Peter Hedges’ creation.
Author: John H. Taylor
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780674057500
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith contributions from leading scholars and detailed catalog entries that interpret the spells and painted scenes, this fascinating and important work affords a greater understanding of ancient Egyptian belief systems and poignantly reveals the hopes and fears about the world beyond death.
Author: David Lodge
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-07-31
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 1446496686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.
Author: Dorothy Thickett
Publisher: British Museum Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 42
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is little point in conserving an object if the storage conditions to which it is to be returned contributed to its deterioration. This book presents the full range of tests, for materials used in constructing storage and display areas, which are used at the British museum and describes standard procedures for carrying them out. It is a valuable source of information for curators, conservators and designers and will enable those with access to relatively basic equipment to carry out their own tests.
Author: Tiffany Jenkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-02-08
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 0198817185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York - to name but a few - can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages. However, in the opinion of most people, many of these items are looted property and should be returned immediately. In 'Keeping Their Marbles', Tiffany Jenkins tells the intriguing and sometimes bloody story of how the West came to acquire these treasures. Originally published: 2016.
Author: Daniel Smith
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: 2012-10-11
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1843179717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLearn how to increase your powers of observation, memory, deduction and reasoning using the tricks and techniques of the world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.
