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this book because...
Great storytelling (spooky encounters at the British Museum plus fierce critique of their colonial-era attitudes to the treasures of other cultures.
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🐕 Good, steady pace
1 author picked Ghosts of the British Museum as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
'An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guide, the British Museum becomes a haunted prison filled with imperial plunder and restless spirits clamouring for attention.' - Malcolm Gaskill, author of The Ruin Of All Witches
'Fascinating and illuminating' - Peter Ackroyd
'Brilliantly delicate, pointed, shivery... You could read it as a guide to which galleries to avoid - or to where the push for repatriation should be most urgent.' - Erin L. Thompson, professor of art crime at the City University of New York
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