Leather wallet with bullets
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: An Ethiopian soldier’s leather wallet with bullets
Where: King’s Own Royal Regiment Museum, Market Square, Lancaster, LA1 1HT
Around 37 ‘scattered objects’ from Ethiopia and Magdala in Ireland
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: An “interesting small collection” from Ethiopia and the 1868 Abyssinian Campaign. No details of items.
Where: The National Museum of Ireland
The emperor’s great seal
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: The seal that Emperor Tewodros used to sign his orders and correspondence
Where: Returned by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II during her state visit to Ethiopia in 1965. Checking current whereabouts.
Munzinger’s sword *
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: A shotel sword thought to belong to Werner Münzinger, British Consul during the time of the Abyssinian campaign
Where: The Royal Collection, Britain
LATEST NEWS: Author releases Ethiopian plunder list to fuel returns campaign
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The monster list of plunder studies
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentGeneral Articles/chapters Colonial collections in British military museums: Of objects, materiality and sentimentBy Henrietta Lidchi and Nicole Hartwellfrom Museums, Society and the Creation of Value, 2021, Routledge – £33/£120 Books Colonialism and the Object: Empire, Material Culture and the MuseumEdited by Tim Barringer, Tom FlynnRoutledge, 1997 – £35/£105 (Limited free preview) Dividing the spoils: Perspectives […]