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A new campaign backed by Dr David Starkey and a former Prime Minister is demanding assurance that they won't leave Britain.
Helmut Marko delivers first words on Christian Horner’s shock Red Bull exit Is Britain going bankrupt? Echoes from the Big ...
A letter, exclusively obtained by Sky News, suggests legal action could be taken to prevent the UK government and British ...
Letter accuses British Museum of 'covert' talks with Greece and warns trustees could face legal challenge if negotiations ...
A letter, exclusively obtained by Sky News, suggests legal action could be taken to prevent the UK government and the British ...
Arranging for the historic depiction of the Battle of Hastings and the killing of King Harold to ‘come home’ for the first ...
Amid a global reckoning on colonialism and cultural supremacy, pressure is growing on the British Museum to return the sculptures to Greece.
Exclusive: Speculation that the closure is related to French president Emmanuel Macron’s state visit as 18,000 visitors face ...
Mary Nisbet, the Countess of Elgin, helped fund the taking of the Parthenon sculptures. Her divorce from Lord Elgin may have contributed to his need to sell them.
Greece's prime minister cut a U.K. visit short after an apparent snub by his U.K. counterpart over the Elgin Marbles — sculptures taken from the Parthenon, now housed at the British Museum.
On May 22, 2025, the government of the United Kingdom signed the much-discussed treaty transferring sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, which included a lease agreement for the ...
These are just some of the ways in which the removal of the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, from Athens to the British museum in the early 19th century has been described.