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'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

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1 author picked Ghosts of the British Museum as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

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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