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Top 10 books about museums | Books

Not featuring a museum in the traditional sense, with dinosaur bones or an empire’s worth of plundered artefacts, but rather an ad hoc collection of more pedestrian exhibits – Hogan’s novel is no less bristling with stories and history for that. It’s about a man who collects lost objects, prosaic little things found in parks and streets, and imagines the stories behind them while trying to reunite them with their owners. It’s beautiful and sad. Orhan Pamuk in the real Museum of Innocence in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2020, inspired by his 2008 novel. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images 3 Similar to Hogan’s collector, Pamuk’s lovelorn businessman, Kemal, builds himself a private museum of items that relate to just one person, his illicit love Fusun. As the novel plays out over almost a decade, the Turkish businessman finds consolation and motivation to pursue his star-crossed lover through his archive of diverse trinkets that carry memories of their snatched moments tog

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Important historical women from Hertfordshire | Great British Life

Caroline Thain Actress Dame Ellen Terry by Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson - Credit: Alamy Stock Photo From intrepid adventuring to fighting for equality, smashing stereotypes and helping to change society as they went, these 10 Herts wonder women richly deserve their places in history. There are many more to choose from but those profiled here include parachuting lifesavers who bounced back from paralysis, pioneering police officers and feminists leading the way in sport, the arts and engineering. Dame Ellen Terry One of the most famous leading ladies of the Victorian era, Dame Ellen Terry was particularly celebrated for her Shakespearean heroines, such as Portia and Beatrice. A young talent and beauty, she left the stage for a while after she married the pre-Raphaelite artist George Frederic Watts aged just 16 (an 1864 painting of her by Watts is in the National Portrait Gallery). He was 31 years older and the marriage only lasted 10 months before she returned t

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Horniman Museum makes Benin Bronzes repatriation pledge to end injustice

Horniman Museum makes Benin Bronzes repatriation pledge to end injustice The UK s regional museums have increasingly adopted a policy of repatriating artwork taken from Nigeria Artefacts taken from Benin City could be returned Benin Bronzes will be made available for repatriation by the Horniman Museum as it seeks to address hurt and injustice . In 1897 British forces seized artworks created for royalty in the Kingdom of Benin, present-day Nigeria, and they have been the focus of renewed calls for repatriation from around 150 museums worldwide following Black Lives Matter protests. National intuitions like the British Museum are legally bound to retain objects, but regional museums in the UK have begun adopting a policy of repatriation after the University of Aberdeen pledged to return a bronze Oba (king) statue in March.

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Legendary Manchester nightclub 42s saved from potential extinction thanks to cash boost

Legendary Manchester nightclub 42s saved from potential extinction thanks to cash boost
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Saving one of the world s rarest toads from extinction – Repeating Islands

Saving one of the world s rarest toads from extinction – Repeating Islands
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