Loot and Plunder
@andrewheavens.bsky.social
By Andrew Heavens, author of "The Prince and the Plunder", about how Britain took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia.
Interested in all things pillaged, and in Bob, and in skiffle.
Champion of Wiggle Wiggle on Pod Dylan.
Interested in all things pillaged, and in Bob, and in skiffle.
Champion of Wiggle Wiggle on Pod Dylan.
Father and son!
Thank you so much to Mariamawit Y Yeshak for taking Alemayehu, via her copy of 'The Prince and the Plunder', to the statue of his father's great cannon in Addis Ababa. Really moving.
Please send in other sightings. #friendsofalemayehu #theprinceandtheplunder #Ethiopia
Thank you so much to Mariamawit Y Yeshak for taking Alemayehu, via her copy of 'The Prince and the Plunder', to the statue of his father's great cannon in Addis Ababa. Really moving.
Please send in other sightings. #friendsofalemayehu #theprinceandtheplunder #Ethiopia
August 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Father and son!
Thank you so much to Mariamawit Y Yeshak for taking Alemayehu, via her copy of 'The Prince and the Plunder', to the statue of his father's great cannon in Addis Ababa. Really moving.
Please send in other sightings. #friendsofalemayehu #theprinceandtheplunder #Ethiopia
Thank you so much to Mariamawit Y Yeshak for taking Alemayehu, via her copy of 'The Prince and the Plunder', to the statue of his father's great cannon in Addis Ababa. Really moving.
Please send in other sightings. #friendsofalemayehu #theprinceandtheplunder #Ethiopia
"We are going to do whatever it takes to take back Africa's belongings. And we're going to do it together!"
Relooted, coming soon from South African game developer Nyamakop @nyamakop youtu.be/KgPxPfXb734
Relooted, coming soon from South African game developer Nyamakop @nyamakop youtu.be/KgPxPfXb734
Relooted Announcement Trailer
YouTube video by Nyamakop
youtu.be
July 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
"We are going to do whatever it takes to take back Africa's belongings. And we're going to do it together!"
Relooted, coming soon from South African game developer Nyamakop @nyamakop youtu.be/KgPxPfXb734
Relooted, coming soon from South African game developer Nyamakop @nyamakop youtu.be/KgPxPfXb734
"About 85 per cent of people in immigration custody are held in places run for profit, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an archive of government data and reports. "https://ig.ft.com/us-immigration-detention/
Inside America’s booming immigration detention industry
The enormous US deportation programme is enriching companies as detainees complain of poor treatment
ig.ft.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
"About 85 per cent of people in immigration custody are held in places run for profit, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an archive of government data and reports. "https://ig.ft.com/us-immigration-detention/
We don't need plunder. We have enough treasure of our own.
The southern door at St. Nicholas Church, Barfrestone (pop. 60) near Dover - s645975992.websitehome.co.uk
"One of the best late Norman churches in Kent," said John Betjeman.
The southern door at St. Nicholas Church, Barfrestone (pop. 60) near Dover - s645975992.websitehome.co.uk
"One of the best late Norman churches in Kent," said John Betjeman.
July 15, 2025 at 5:35 AM
We don't need plunder. We have enough treasure of our own.
The southern door at St. Nicholas Church, Barfrestone (pop. 60) near Dover - s645975992.websitehome.co.uk
"One of the best late Norman churches in Kent," said John Betjeman.
The southern door at St. Nicholas Church, Barfrestone (pop. 60) near Dover - s645975992.websitehome.co.uk
"One of the best late Norman churches in Kent," said John Betjeman.
You've heard of the Prince and the Plunder.
Meet the Love Guru and the Loot.
Lytchett Minster Parish Church, Sunday
Meet the Love Guru and the Loot.
Lytchett Minster Parish Church, Sunday
July 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
You've heard of the Prince and the Plunder.
Meet the Love Guru and the Loot.
Lytchett Minster Parish Church, Sunday
Meet the Love Guru and the Loot.
Lytchett Minster Parish Church, Sunday
Here starts the campaign for Britain to repatriate the plundered acronym "PAC", in fact the whole concept. It belongs in the US of A.
"Great British Pac calls for an end to any negotiations to return the Parthenon sculptures or risk legal challenges."
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
"Great British Pac calls for an end to any negotiations to return the Parthenon sculptures or risk legal challenges."
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
July 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Here starts the campaign for Britain to repatriate the plundered acronym "PAC", in fact the whole concept. It belongs in the US of A.
"Great British Pac calls for an end to any negotiations to return the Parthenon sculptures or risk legal challenges."
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
"Great British Pac calls for an end to any negotiations to return the Parthenon sculptures or risk legal challenges."
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Thrilled to report that Barbara Blake Hannah - yes *that* Barbara Blake Hannah - has reviewed "The Prince and the Plunder".
"So vivid and descriptive that at times I felt I was watching a documentary film, not just reading a book." Thank you! www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/2025/07/02/r...
"So vivid and descriptive that at times I felt I was watching a documentary film, not just reading a book." Thank you! www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/2025/07/02/r...
July 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Thrilled to report that Barbara Blake Hannah - yes *that* Barbara Blake Hannah - has reviewed "The Prince and the Plunder".
"So vivid and descriptive that at times I felt I was watching a documentary film, not just reading a book." Thank you! www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/2025/07/02/r...
"So vivid and descriptive that at times I felt I was watching a documentary film, not just reading a book." Thank you! www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/2025/07/02/r...
Ethiopia's 1983-85 famine: the musical.
June 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Ethiopia's 1983-85 famine: the musical.
Latin scholars, please help.
I am trying to translate this memorial for Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu in Rugby School chapel.
How close has Google Translate got me?
Cunning - really? Players or playmates? And are those dates right? They don't match the record.
I am trying to translate this memorial for Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu in Rugby School chapel.
How close has Google Translate got me?
Cunning - really? Players or playmates? And are those dates right? They don't match the record.
June 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Latin scholars, please help.
I am trying to translate this memorial for Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu in Rugby School chapel.
How close has Google Translate got me?
Cunning - really? Players or playmates? And are those dates right? They don't match the record.
I am trying to translate this memorial for Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu in Rugby School chapel.
How close has Google Translate got me?
Cunning - really? Players or playmates? And are those dates right? They don't match the record.
The South London Press, where I did my first work experience, just "abruptly" shut down. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...
The first newspapers to pay me - the @chardandilynews.bsky.social and the @expressandstar.com - are still there, but scaled down.
Brave new future a little less shiny this am
The first newspapers to pay me - the @chardandilynews.bsky.social and the @expressandstar.com - are still there, but scaled down.
Brave new future a little less shiny this am
South London Press closes down after 160 years covering UK capital
Independent local newspaper the South London Press has abruptly closed down after 160 years as it goes into insolvency proceedings.
pressgazette.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The South London Press, where I did my first work experience, just "abruptly" shut down. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/r...
The first newspapers to pay me - the @chardandilynews.bsky.social and the @expressandstar.com - are still there, but scaled down.
Brave new future a little less shiny this am
The first newspapers to pay me - the @chardandilynews.bsky.social and the @expressandstar.com - are still there, but scaled down.
Brave new future a little less shiny this am
Bow down to him on Saturday / Salute him now his birthday's come #happybirthday #bobdylan
May 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Bow down to him on Saturday / Salute him now his birthday's come #happybirthday #bobdylan
Signed photograph of Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy and Albania, Empress of Ethiopia ... briefly
Yours for up to 200 Swiss francs ($240) www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
Yours for up to 200 Swiss francs ($240) www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
May 23, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Signed photograph of Elena of Montenegro, Queen of Italy and Albania, Empress of Ethiopia ... briefly
Yours for up to 200 Swiss francs ($240) www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
Yours for up to 200 Swiss francs ($240) www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
A 1930s anti-fascism poster with 'Abisinia' as the victim.
"Envy and Greed have married, and from this vile marriage is born, like a fruit of rot, the law of the strongest ... or the most envious."
A historical artefact with nothing to teach us today. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
"Envy and Greed have married, and from this vile marriage is born, like a fruit of rot, the law of the strongest ... or the most envious."
A historical artefact with nothing to teach us today. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
May 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
A 1930s anti-fascism poster with 'Abisinia' as the victim.
"Envy and Greed have married, and from this vile marriage is born, like a fruit of rot, the law of the strongest ... or the most envious."
A historical artefact with nothing to teach us today. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
"Envy and Greed have married, and from this vile marriage is born, like a fruit of rot, the law of the strongest ... or the most envious."
A historical artefact with nothing to teach us today. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
Wild camping won! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
May 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Wild camping won! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Very excitingly, the V&A has started taking bookings for its Order an Object scheme. You order things from the museum's vast storerooms - and they bring them out to you!
Here are my 5 treasures from Britain's 1868 Abyssinian "expedition". Have a go www.vam.ac.uk/info/order-a...
Here are my 5 treasures from Britain's 1868 Abyssinian "expedition". Have a go www.vam.ac.uk/info/order-a...
May 20, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Very excitingly, the V&A has started taking bookings for its Order an Object scheme. You order things from the museum's vast storerooms - and they bring them out to you!
Here are my 5 treasures from Britain's 1868 Abyssinian "expedition". Have a go www.vam.ac.uk/info/order-a...
Here are my 5 treasures from Britain's 1868 Abyssinian "expedition". Have a go www.vam.ac.uk/info/order-a...
"Do cremated ashes classify as human remains? Should there be international trade in religious relics? What, in the words of the fictive archaeologist Indiana Jones, 'belongs in a museum'?"
And don't get me started on tabots.
www.ft.com/content/489a... via Melanie Gerlis in @financialtimes.com
And don't get me started on tabots.
www.ft.com/content/489a... via Melanie Gerlis in @financialtimes.com
Should holy relics be put up for sale? The market for sacred artefacts is an ethical minefield
Sotheby’s has postponed its sale of gems linked to the remains of the Buddha, in a case that has sparked legal and moral debates
www.ft.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:39 AM
"Do cremated ashes classify as human remains? Should there be international trade in religious relics? What, in the words of the fictive archaeologist Indiana Jones, 'belongs in a museum'?"
And don't get me started on tabots.
www.ft.com/content/489a... via Melanie Gerlis in @financialtimes.com
And don't get me started on tabots.
www.ft.com/content/489a... via Melanie Gerlis in @financialtimes.com
A big judgment coming next Wednesday. Will Dartmoor remain the last place where we can camp freely in England? Or will the landowners win? @supremecourt.uk @righttoroam.bsky.social #dartmoor #freecamping supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...
Darwall and another (Appellants) v Dartmoor National Park Authority (Respondent) - UK Supreme Court
Does section 10(1) of the Dartmoor Commons Act 1985 (the “1985 Act”) confer on the public a right to pitch tents or otherwise make camp overnight on the Dartmoor Commons (“the Commons”)?
supremecourt.uk
May 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
A big judgment coming next Wednesday. Will Dartmoor remain the last place where we can camp freely in England? Or will the landowners win? @supremecourt.uk @righttoroam.bsky.social #dartmoor #freecamping supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...
"Leo XIV becomes proprietor in trust of the great art and architectural treasures of Vatican City, and will be looked to as a moral authority ... Under (his predecessor) Francis, the papacy made a number of symbolic gestures around ... cultural restitution." www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/08/r...
Robert Francis Prevost has been elected Pope Leo XIV—why does this matter to the worlds of art and heritage?
The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and architecture treasures of the Vatican—has publicly supported his predecessor...
www.theartnewspaper.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"Leo XIV becomes proprietor in trust of the great art and architectural treasures of Vatican City, and will be looked to as a moral authority ... Under (his predecessor) Francis, the papacy made a number of symbolic gestures around ... cultural restitution." www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/08/r...
Treasure found while flat-hunting in Lewisham
May 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Treasure found while flat-hunting in Lewisham
Reposted by Loot and Plunder
Happy 5th Day of May to all who celebrate.
🎥: Bob Dylan performs “Isis” with the Rolling Thunder Revue in Montréal on December 4, 1975.
🎥: Bob Dylan performs “Isis” with the Rolling Thunder Revue in Montréal on December 4, 1975.
May 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Happy 5th Day of May to all who celebrate.
🎥: Bob Dylan performs “Isis” with the Rolling Thunder Revue in Montréal on December 4, 1975.
🎥: Bob Dylan performs “Isis” with the Rolling Thunder Revue in Montréal on December 4, 1975.
Reposted by Loot and Plunder
A ray of joy, as ever.
An update from our Director, Rachel Morley, about the upcoming repair projects.
As we look forward to completing repairs at Gumfreston, Llangua, Llanddoged, and Bodwrog, we’re also excited to announce six new repair projects for the 2025–26 financial year.
As we look forward to completing repairs at Gumfreston, Llangua, Llanddoged, and Bodwrog, we’re also excited to announce six new repair projects for the 2025–26 financial year.
May 3, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A ray of joy, as ever.
Scotland leads the way again.
"Rather than a diminishment of the University's collections," Prof Gillingwater said, the returns "represent an opportunity for the University to work with communities in order to build new relationships and friendships." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Rather than a diminishment of the University's collections," Prof Gillingwater said, the returns "represent an opportunity for the University to work with communities in order to build new relationships and friendships." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Edinburgh University returns indigenous Ainu skulls to Japan
Three skulls donated to the university by a Scottish doctor in 1913 have been returned to Hokkaido.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Scotland leads the way again.
"Rather than a diminishment of the University's collections," Prof Gillingwater said, the returns "represent an opportunity for the University to work with communities in order to build new relationships and friendships." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Rather than a diminishment of the University's collections," Prof Gillingwater said, the returns "represent an opportunity for the University to work with communities in order to build new relationships and friendships." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"They destroyed our identity, and our history," Ikhlas Abdel Latif Ahmed, director of museums at Sudan's National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, told the BBC's Newsday programme.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sudan: How war ravaged museums and priceless artefacts
Sudan's national museum is among the institutions that have been looted and vandalised during the war.
www.bbc.com
April 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
"They destroyed our identity, and our history," Ikhlas Abdel Latif Ahmed, director of museums at Sudan's National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums, told the BBC's Newsday programme.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Happy Birthday to Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu ... and England's William Shakespeare
April 23, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Happy Birthday to Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu ... and England's William Shakespeare