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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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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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