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'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages…
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The Whole Picture is a very recent book, that needs little introduction: that’s always the sign of a great book.
It does something very well: it explains what all those talks about looted art and artefacts and colonialism, and repatriation, are all about, without patronizing anyone, but without letting museums get away with their narratives either.
I remember reading it and thinking that it was about time I picked up my little idea and write my own book: I stand on the shoulders of fierce writers and thinkers and game-changers.
This book will make you ask questions, and it will…
From Angela's list on why there’s an Egyptian mummy in your back garden.
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