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Artist / Author of Ghosts of the British Museum, a narrative non-fiction work about the BM's many ghosts. Currently completing a film. Wayfaring North Carolinian. Literary rep: Zoe Ross at United Agents. linktr.ee/ghostsofthebritishmuseum

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is sooooooo enraging. A US anthropologist (who had been a CIA agent and was married to a US diplomat) basically robbed Nepal of its cultural and religious heritage, and in contravention of Nepalese laws and donated these to US museums. www.himalmag.com/mary-slusser...
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Mary Slusser’s secret loot of Nepal’s sacred art and heritage
A US scholar made her name as an expert on Nepal’s cultural heritage – while illicitly buying sacred artefacts and smuggling them out to the United States
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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After more than a century, this Salish woolly dog pelt has returned to 'B.C.'
The Coast and Interior Salish companions were carefully bred for thousands of years, then they went extinct — the only known pelt is at MOA until next August
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest investigation on stolen cultural heritage now out from @himalsouthasian.bsky.social. I followed the tracks of Mary Slusser, an American academic who thought she was “saving” Nepal’s culture by smuggling sacred artifacts out of the country - killing at least one ritual.
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Craig @kuangeleven.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just read a short story called 'Outside the Door' by E.F. Benson, written in 1912. A murder takes place after a scared chase through a building. The storyteller theorises that the fear may have imprinted on the structure to be experienced as a ghost later. Stone Tape, 60 years before Kneale :)
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alulapankhurst.bsky.social @alulapankhurst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Should Emperor Tewodros' Bible be sold by Austrian dealer Inlibris in Abu Dhabi tomorrow? www.voice-online.co.uk/news/world-n...
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unevn.bsky.social @unevn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A portrait by Jonathan Yeo of the billionaire entrepreneur Igor Tulchinsky has gone on public view in the British Museum’s Bayeux Tapestry exhibition, amid scrutiny over his ties to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/09/11/p...
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Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF
A painting of Igor Tulchinsky is on display within the museum’s blockbuster Bayeux Tapestry show
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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I'm excited to be doing an online event with Cecil Court's own Watkins Books on September 10th. Please RSVP below. www.watkinsbooks.com/event-detail...
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Ghosts of the British Museum -Noah Angell | Watkins Bookshop
A true story of colonial loot and restless objects, and an absorbingly creepy travelogue through the shadowy corridors, echoing tunnels and musty basements of our most famous repository of cultural t...
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Currently researching Native performers who were in Paris during the fall of France in 1940, and had to flee the fascists. Here is Molly Spotted Elk’s (Penobscot) 1903-1977, story: She was a vaudeville performer, cabaret dancer, and film actor. After performing
Currently researching Native performers who were in Paris during the fall of France in 1940, and had to flee the fascists. Here is Molly Spotted Elk’s (Penobscot) 1903-1977, story: She was a vaudeville performer, cabaret dancer, and film actor. After performing in The United States, she moved to Paris in 1931, to experince Paris and perform in a more liberal society. There she met and married French journalist Jean Archambaud. Besides performing, Molly began to research and write her tribe’s history and returned to The States for a few years. In 1938, with war looming, she returned to Paris with her daughter, to be with Archambaud. The blitzkrieg invasion of France in 1940 forced her and her daughter to quickly leave Paris, likely by train though the rail system was soon shut down and somewhere along the way she and her daughter had to cross the Pyrenees, on foot, into Spain. Eventually they reached North America by boat. Molly would never see her husband again, as he died in 1941, possibly in a Nazi work camp. Molly spent the remainder of her life on the Penobscot Reservation in Maine.

Archives nationales de France
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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pardela-de-asa-larga - 🎵 Robson Silva E Silva
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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Believe it or not, there's a whole line of right wing thinking that the British Museum is "woke" or DEI bc there are too many foreign things in it. Real galaxy brain shit. That Farage is wading into this sentiment reads as desperate for sure.
A screenshot of a tweet that reads "Non-event Horizon @event_non
ONLY BRITISH ITEMS SHOULD BE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. ITS THE BRTISH MUSUEM NOT THE BLOODY GREEK MUSEUM. GET ALL THAT FORRIGN MUCK OUT!
3:45 PM Mar 16, 2024"Screenshot of a tweet that reads "Vaxxed 5fold Academies of 18fold Exhi8ited 8larg... + Follow @emperorblargus.bsky.social
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Inclusion of Egypt into the British Museum DEI, effectively.
Back then Rome and then Greece were considered the pinnacle of civilization.
DEI is about bringing in what you don't know... and you *CAN'T* know beforehand.
December 27, 2024 at 1:02 AM"
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Aedh MacTire @tine119.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Cultural genocide: How Israel has deliberately destroyed 71.5 percent of Gaza’s heritage
“Palestinians are in danger of losing their sense of belonging and of continuity with the past altogether.”
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André Bruwer @andrebruwer.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Incredible listen. The British have stolen so much stuff that they don't even know what they have. No wonder that place so haunted.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So many responses to this saying "shameful" and " a disgrace!" and, guys: I have terrible, terrible news for you about the british museum. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry
Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum
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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I recently appeared on Ghosthropology, a podcast which examines ghost stories from a social science perspective (hosted by an archaeologist!), to discuss Ghosts of the British Museum. We talked storage, suicides, & the grand experiment of the museum, and more. kmmamedia.com/2026/08/24/1...
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119. Ghosts of the British Museum (with Noah Angell)
In this episode, Matt talks to Noah Angell about his book Ghosts of the British Museum. How does the museum’s reputation of being the gold standard of museum collections square with its histo…
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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I'm excited to be doing an online event with Cecil Court's own Watkins Books on September 10th. Please RSVP below. www.watkinsbooks.com/event-detail...
watkinsbooks.com
Ghosts of the British Museum -Noah Angell | Watkins Bookshop
A true story of colonial loot and restless objects, and an absorbingly creepy travelogue through the shadowy corridors, echoing tunnels and musty basements of our most famous repository of cultural t...
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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I recently appeared on Ghosthropology, a podcast which examines ghost stories from a social science perspective (hosted by an archaeologist!), to discuss Ghosts of the British Museum. We talked storage, suicides, & the grand experiment of the museum, and more. kmmamedia.com/2026/08/24/1...
kmmamedia.com
119. Ghosts of the British Museum (with Noah Angell)
In this episode, Matt talks to Noah Angell about his book Ghosts of the British Museum. How does the museum’s reputation of being the gold standard of museum collections square with its histo…
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INTERPOL @interpol.int · 28/08/2026
The necklace stolen from an exhibit at Vienna’s Museum of Applied Arts has been added to our Stolen Works of Art database by Austrian authorities. The piece, adorned with 673 diamonds, once belonged to Queen Nazli of Egypt. www.interpol.int/Crimes/Cultu...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/08/2026
Thieves steal bronze age Treasure of Villena in four-minute heist
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Thieves steal bronze age Treasure of Villena in four-minute heist
Most of 50-piece Spanish gold collection worth at least €1.7m stolen in latest high-profile European raid Thieves have stolen the Treasure of Villena – one of the greatest bronze age gold collections – in the latest high-profile heist of a European museum, officials said. The early morning raid on the 50-plus mainly gold objects in the Spanish town of Villena on Thursday lasted just minutes. Continue reading...
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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Is there any more info about the incident referenced here? A US soldier bombing a shoe shine shop in Durham's Hayti district? I read this a year ago & keep wondering...
A book sitting on a desk titled "Hayti Police" Memoirs of a Former Durham Police Officer by Marshall ThompsonA photographed excerpt from page 57 of the book: "...He treated even the worst customer with the greatest respect.

"Thank you, sir," or "Thank you, madam," he would say to each and every one as they completed their transaction with the shop. All customers were important whenever they entered his store.

He also treated his "shine boys" as men even when they didn't deserve to be treated as such. Mr. Rome only had one hand, the other having been blown off by a grenade that a soldier had left in a seat in his shop. He never let this hinder him in any way. His shoe shine rag was made so that he could place his wrist in an opening on one side of the cloth.

He had, at times, four to twelve young men working for him. Mr. Rome even had white men and, at one time, white women working in his shop. Everyone got along."
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Nicholas Whithorn @nickwhithorn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Four 15th century panel paintings by Antonello da Messina were stolen from the Messina Museum last night. 4 guards were (supposedly) on duty & the alarm system functioned but nobody noticed the theft until a family walking by found 2 other paintings abandoned by the thieves against the museum wall.
Two 15th century panel paintings by Antonello da Messina leaning against the wall of Messina Museum four by a passing family of tourists last night. They called the police who then discovered thieves had broken into the museum and made off with four other similar works, abandoning these two for some reason during their escape.
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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Araponga - 🎵 Emerson Kaseker
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Remember Gaza @remembergaza.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
In memory of: Malak Majdi Jaafar Kalan / ملاك مجدي جعفر كلان Age: 2 We will not forget you.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Awesome shot from Spain.
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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"We will not display them in museums because, according to our culture, it is a degrading act," said Sylla. "We will bury them in Fouta-Djallon, at a location to be determined, in accordance with our religious and customary traditions."
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Among the 18,000 skulls and human remains stored in the basement of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris are those of Guinean anti-colonial fighters." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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Guinea asks France to return skull of Bokar Biro, who led resistance against French colonization
Guinea is seeking to reclaim the skulls of the last ruler of the theocratic state of Fouta-Djallon and those of three of his close companions, nearly 130 years after their murder by French colonial tr...
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John Sharman @jonsx11.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Return: send the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece. Love them in the British Museum, but it's time. Look at the time Odysseus took to get back home. A family needs to come together again. How difficult it is to be human. Choices. How a man and woman get together again.
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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Sinologist Frances Wood on the Chinese book collection of Hans Sloane, an extraordinary collector in the early 1700s with an insatiable intellectual curiosity. His books were the fulcrum the British Museum and the Museum of Natural History and the British Library… m.youtube.com/watch?v=mnM2...
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174) Frances Wood on the British Library's Chinese book collection of Sir Hans Sloane Aug. 5, 2026
YouTube video by Royal Asiatic Society Beijing
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Urgent Matter @urgentmatter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Yemen’s antiquities authority has identified 28 objects — 20 held by the British Museum and eight offered for sale in early July at two London auction houses — as looted pieces of the country’s cultural heritage, the latest entry in a rolling series of public lists tracking Yemeni artifacts abroad.
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Yemen names looted antiquities at British Museum, auctions
The General Authority for Antiquities and Museums said it had notified relevant international bodies about the pieces.
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Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"What world lies beyond this sea I do not know, but every sea has another shore and I will arrive." - seen in a cemetery on Italian island Lampedusa, where people who die at sea are buried.
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NC Stories @ncstories.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Public hearing set for nearly 650 diesel generators tied to Amazon data center A public hearing next Thursday will focus on draft air permits for Amazon's backup generators and Duke Energy's temporary bridge power generators in Richmond County.
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Public hearing set for nearly 650 diesel generators tied to Amazon data center
A public hearing Thursday will focus on draft air permits for Amazon's backup generators and Duke Energy's temporary bridge power generators in Richmond County.
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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
On this day in 1763, during Pontiac's War, British troops are defeated in the Battle of Bloody Run when they try to break the Native forces' siege of Fort Detroit. anticolonialhistory.com/event/82/
Bloody Run historical marker
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Archivists, historians, artists and other culture workers are fighting against what they see as a systematic attempt to erase and censor minority voices. Their work involves teaching the principles of collecting, retelling and preserving the stories of Black life." outliermedia.org/black-bottom...
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How archivists, artists are preserving Detroit culture
Visual artists, creatives and archivists like Black Bottom Archives are working to preserve Black culture in Detroit.
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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
5345m Sea cucumber, Crinoid, Urchin, Corallamorph, Bathypterois, sea cucumber, Umbellula, Nemertean?, polychaete @nautiluslive.org dive on 7.28.26 #MarineLife
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Former V&A Academic Programs Head Accuses Museum of “Racist” Behavior
A recently shared letter from Yuko Kikuchi, who resigned from her post in January, asks the British institution to address its “culture of systemic racism.”
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 24/07/2026
*because Israel keeps bombing it and also they said they want to occupy the rubble and eventually annex it
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Xavier Archéo'Japon @xaviermt3.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
😰 www.ici.fr/bourgogne-fr...
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INFO ICI BOURGOGNE - Le Musée du pays Châtillonnais victime d'un vol en plein jour, le torque de la Dame de Vix dérobé - ICI
Les gendarmes de Châtillon-sur-Seine ont longtemps survolé le secteur du musée ce vendredi, et pour cause : le torque de la Dame de Vix, ce collier d'or inestimable, a été dérobé ce vendredi 24 juille...
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.
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Luisa Calè @luisacale.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
So hot in the British Museum Print Room, looking at Biblical catastrophes and thinking about the present moment in this precious place with a glass roof not made for today's temperature. How much of our archival infrastructure needs rethinking and rehousing?
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Aves do Brasil @avesbrasil.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Chupim-do-brejo - 🎵 Renan Oliveira
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museo_ghosts @noahangell.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
" London remembers its Blitz wounds with pride. Berlin is different..." I've lived in both cities and was viscerally aware of this dynamic. Berlin is (re)built atop ppl buried with no ceremony or acknowledgement. The weight of all those anguished deaths & the attendant German repression was a lot.
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SI: Museum of African American History (Bot) @simuseumafro.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Photograph postcard of the Jenkins Orphanage Band, Charleston, South Carolina nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2014.63…
Photograph postcard of the Jenkins Orphanage Band, Charleston, South Carolina
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
£42.6m worth of repairs identified, £13m labelled urgent, the Welsh Government has allocated £4.8m for the most urgent work. Staff seek assurances on jobs as National Museum of Wales eyes long term closure to allow repairs to a "failing" building which hosts a national collection of 5.3m objects.
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Cardiff's National Museum closing is 'realistic' option, says boss
Jane Richardson says a prolonged closure of National Museum Cardiff for repairs is a realistic option.
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Aedh MacTire @tine119.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
It is immensely intriguing to me that #MPs in #Britain see this as an issue, and indeed , #CulturalGenocide is just such, but don’t feel the same way about actual #Genocide ?!? Is this just a #PR exercise? www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusi...
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Exclusive: MPs demand investigation into British Museum’s 'erasure' of Palestine
Call for independent inquiry cites 'deeply troubling' MEE investigation, which revealed changes followed months of lobbying by pro-Israel activists
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Remember Srebrenica
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Berlin Battle Damage @berlin-1945.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
This is the entrance to the bunker of the New Reich Chancellery which has been in the news recently because of plans to demolish it for housing. It’s in plain sight on waste ground on Voßstraße and is the only remaining trace of the Chancellery. Link to BBC article in comments.
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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The article partly discusses the Townshend monument in westminster abbey, which depicts two Indigenous men modelled on a young Odawa boy kidnapped and brought to London as a gift for a British general.
A funerary statue of a man in Indigenous dress
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Behind-the-scenes 🧵 on this story revealing that the American Museum of Natural History in New York is holding thousands of hair samples taken from Native Americans, including children at residential schools - despite knowing their names. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/a...
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Decades Late, Museum Scrambles to Return 2,700 Native Remains
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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
🌱 hello hydrangeas💙💚
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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Meanwhile in Mexico, they’re busy hiding all their cultural landmarks so the English don’t haul them off to the British Museum.
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(Mar)Chella Ward @luxmea.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The British Museum did what colonial museums have always done: it rewrote history to serve the coloniser and then lied about it.
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