The Prince and the Plunder

A book on how Britain took one boy and piles of treasures from Ethiopia

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The Prince and the Plunder

Coming February 2023

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The book

By Andrew Heavens

Buy your copy at Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Blackwell's, Bookshop.org, Foyles, Hatchards, Hive.co.uk, Hunt's of Rugby, the National Archives bookshop and Waterstones

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The treasure

A directory, by current location, of the Maqdala plunder and the other treasures that the soldiers and captives and missionaries brought back.

Items marked with an asterisk have a weaker link to the expedition and the battle than others.

Alamayu’s possessions
Archaeology
Manuscripts
Military
Miscellaneous
Royal regalia
Sacred artefacts
- Discs

Where it is now

A bank vault in Portugal (1) Afrika Museum - The Netherlands (1) Austrian National Library (1) Berlin State Library (2) Bibliothèque nationale de France - Paris (2) Bodleian Library - Oxford (11) Bonn University Library - Bonn (1) Boston College Law Library - Boston (1) Britain's Royal Collection (10) British Library (361) British Museum (70) Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (4) Cambridge University Library (13) Chester Beatty Library - Dublin (3) Cuming Museum - London (1) Duke of Wellington's Regimental Museum (5) Edinburgh University Library (2) Ethnological Museum - Berlin (3) Horniman Museum - London (1) Hughenden - National Trust (1) John Rylands Library - Manchester (5) Lancaster Priory (4) Leiden University Libraries (2) National Army Museum - London (15) National Library of Scotland (3) National Museum of Ireland (1) National Museums of Scotland (16) Pitt Rivers Museum - Oxford (9) Princeton University Library (3) Returned plunder (8) Royal Armouries Collection (1) Royal Engineers Museum (6) Royal Ontario Museum (1) Schøyen manuscript collection (1) The Cameronians Regimental Museum - Hamilton (3) The King's Own Royal Regiment Museum - Lancaster (18) The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (1) Trinity College Library - Dublin (3) UCLA Library - Los Angeles (1) University of Dundee Museum (1) Unknown (39) Unnamed buyer (5) Victoria & Albert Museum - London (34) Wellcome Collection - London (6) Westminster Abbey (1)

This list will be updated regularly. Check back for more plunder.

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