Loot and Plunder
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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 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.
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...
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...
Treasure found while flat-hunting in Lewisham
May 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Treasure found while flat-hunting in Lewisham
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
If I had a spare £1,000... A watercolour up for sale of British troops loading elephants onto a ship in India in 1867/8 before it set off to invade Ethiopia.
The elephants carried the artillery there and, unreliable sources say, some of the plunder back. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
The elephants carried the artillery there and, unreliable sources say, some of the plunder back. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
April 20, 2025 at 5:26 AM
If I had a spare £1,000... A watercolour up for sale of British troops loading elephants onto a ship in India in 1867/8 before it set off to invade Ethiopia.
The elephants carried the artillery there and, unreliable sources say, some of the plunder back. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
The elephants carried the artillery there and, unreliable sources say, some of the plunder back. www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
The Memphis Daily Appeal covered the death of Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu on the front of its Dec 21, 1879 edition. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045...
Who did they think he was?
"...the last in lineal descent from Solomon and the queen of Sheba. If there is anything in blood he had it."
Who did they think he was?
"...the last in lineal descent from Solomon and the queen of Sheba. If there is anything in blood he had it."
April 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The Memphis Daily Appeal covered the death of Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu on the front of its Dec 21, 1879 edition. chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045...
Who did they think he was?
"...the last in lineal descent from Solomon and the queen of Sheba. If there is anything in blood he had it."
Who did they think he was?
"...the last in lineal descent from Solomon and the queen of Sheba. If there is anything in blood he had it."
Today is a good day to remember the 500-year-old Kwer’ata Re’esu icon, stolen from Ethiopia by the British Museum official accompanying Britain's invasion in 1868. And that was just one stage in its journey ... www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/2023/04/08/3...
April 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Today is a good day to remember the 500-year-old Kwer’ata Re’esu icon, stolen from Ethiopia by the British Museum official accompanying Britain's invasion in 1868. And that was just one stage in its journey ... www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/2023/04/08/3...
Turquoise-inlaid white metal ornaments "acquired" by William Pyt Bennett who served during the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet in 1903/4.
I added the quote marks given what happened on that "expedition" www.jstor.org/stable/3876552
Yours for £700 at Bonhams www.bonhams.com/auction/3064...
I added the quote marks given what happened on that "expedition" www.jstor.org/stable/3876552
Yours for £700 at Bonhams www.bonhams.com/auction/3064...
April 18, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Turquoise-inlaid white metal ornaments "acquired" by William Pyt Bennett who served during the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet in 1903/4.
I added the quote marks given what happened on that "expedition" www.jstor.org/stable/3876552
Yours for £700 at Bonhams www.bonhams.com/auction/3064...
I added the quote marks given what happened on that "expedition" www.jstor.org/stable/3876552
Yours for £700 at Bonhams www.bonhams.com/auction/3064...
It seeems equally shocking that the one on the right exists, and that it only costs £200.
L - Gelada (Theropithecus gelada gelada) male, nr Debre Libanos, Ethiopia
R - A 1960s Ethiopian Gelada fur coat, with open front, padded shoulders and wide sleeves www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
L - Gelada (Theropithecus gelada gelada) male, nr Debre Libanos, Ethiopia
R - A 1960s Ethiopian Gelada fur coat, with open front, padded shoulders and wide sleeves www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
April 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
It seeems equally shocking that the one on the right exists, and that it only costs £200.
L - Gelada (Theropithecus gelada gelada) male, nr Debre Libanos, Ethiopia
R - A 1960s Ethiopian Gelada fur coat, with open front, padded shoulders and wide sleeves www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
L - Gelada (Theropithecus gelada gelada) male, nr Debre Libanos, Ethiopia
R - A 1960s Ethiopian Gelada fur coat, with open front, padded shoulders and wide sleeves www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio...
One more for the tottering pile.
Poet A. E. Stallings has marshaled letters, paintings, a dubiously translated firman, newspaper clippings, parliamentary proceedings and other lore in this detailed and gossipy history of the Parthenon (AKA, Elgin) Marbles. www.pauldrybooks.com/products/fri...
Poet A. E. Stallings has marshaled letters, paintings, a dubiously translated firman, newspaper clippings, parliamentary proceedings and other lore in this detailed and gossipy history of the Parthenon (AKA, Elgin) Marbles. www.pauldrybooks.com/products/fri...
April 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
One more for the tottering pile.
Poet A. E. Stallings has marshaled letters, paintings, a dubiously translated firman, newspaper clippings, parliamentary proceedings and other lore in this detailed and gossipy history of the Parthenon (AKA, Elgin) Marbles. www.pauldrybooks.com/products/fri...
Poet A. E. Stallings has marshaled letters, paintings, a dubiously translated firman, newspaper clippings, parliamentary proceedings and other lore in this detailed and gossipy history of the Parthenon (AKA, Elgin) Marbles. www.pauldrybooks.com/products/fri...
No indication it's plunder. But real treasure.
A calligraphic gold-inlaid sword hilt with invocations to God, Muhammad and 'Ali, India, C18th. On sale in London for c £3,500.
Tipu Sultan's bedchamber sword - sold for £14 mln in 2023 - had a similar hilt. www.roseberys.co.uk/a0705-lot-59...
A calligraphic gold-inlaid sword hilt with invocations to God, Muhammad and 'Ali, India, C18th. On sale in London for c £3,500.
Tipu Sultan's bedchamber sword - sold for £14 mln in 2023 - had a similar hilt. www.roseberys.co.uk/a0705-lot-59...
April 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
No indication it's plunder. But real treasure.
A calligraphic gold-inlaid sword hilt with invocations to God, Muhammad and 'Ali, India, C18th. On sale in London for c £3,500.
Tipu Sultan's bedchamber sword - sold for £14 mln in 2023 - had a similar hilt. www.roseberys.co.uk/a0705-lot-59...
A calligraphic gold-inlaid sword hilt with invocations to God, Muhammad and 'Ali, India, C18th. On sale in London for c £3,500.
Tipu Sultan's bedchamber sword - sold for £14 mln in 2023 - had a similar hilt. www.roseberys.co.uk/a0705-lot-59...
I am talking about British barmaid turned wonderwoman Lady Meux at a conference in Oxford on April 25-26 on "Encoutering Mary in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition".
There will also be art, poetry, food and Ethio-jazz.
Come along www.eventbrite.com/e/kiddist-ma...
There will also be art, poetry, food and Ethio-jazz.
Come along www.eventbrite.com/e/kiddist-ma...
April 9, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I am talking about British barmaid turned wonderwoman Lady Meux at a conference in Oxford on April 25-26 on "Encoutering Mary in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tradition".
There will also be art, poetry, food and Ethio-jazz.
Come along www.eventbrite.com/e/kiddist-ma...
There will also be art, poetry, food and Ethio-jazz.
Come along www.eventbrite.com/e/kiddist-ma...
A Glasgow museum has returned a shell necklace to representatives of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.
Previous requests were refused, one on the grounds that “there was no evidence that the acquisition was unethical.”
But attitudes have changed... www.returningheritage.com/rare-aborigi...
Previous requests were refused, one on the grounds that “there was no evidence that the acquisition was unethical.”
But attitudes have changed... www.returningheritage.com/rare-aborigi...
April 8, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A Glasgow museum has returned a shell necklace to representatives of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre.
Previous requests were refused, one on the grounds that “there was no evidence that the acquisition was unethical.”
But attitudes have changed... www.returningheritage.com/rare-aborigi...
Previous requests were refused, one on the grounds that “there was no evidence that the acquisition was unethical.”
But attitudes have changed... www.returningheritage.com/rare-aborigi...
Film 3: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Panama Hat: Small world, Dr. Jones.
Indiana Jones: Too small for two of us.
Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum.
Panama Hat: So do you.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0097...
Panama Hat: Small world, Dr. Jones.
Indiana Jones: Too small for two of us.
Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum.
Panama Hat: So do you.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0097...
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Film 3: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Panama Hat: Small world, Dr. Jones.
Indiana Jones: Too small for two of us.
Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum.
Panama Hat: So do you.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0097...
Panama Hat: Small world, Dr. Jones.
Indiana Jones: Too small for two of us.
Panama Hat: This is the second time I've had to reclaim my property from you.
Indiana Jones: That belongs in a museum.
Panama Hat: So do you.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0097...
Film 2: Dahomey
Voice of Artifact #26: "There are thousands of us in this night. We all bear the same scars. Uprooted. Ripped out. The spoils of massive plundering. Today, it's me they have chosen like their finest and most legitimate victim!"
www.imdb.com/title/tt3101...
Voice of Artifact #26: "There are thousands of us in this night. We all bear the same scars. Uprooted. Ripped out. The spoils of massive plundering. Today, it's me they have chosen like their finest and most legitimate victim!"
www.imdb.com/title/tt3101...
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Film 2: Dahomey
Voice of Artifact #26: "There are thousands of us in this night. We all bear the same scars. Uprooted. Ripped out. The spoils of massive plundering. Today, it's me they have chosen like their finest and most legitimate victim!"
www.imdb.com/title/tt3101...
Voice of Artifact #26: "There are thousands of us in this night. We all bear the same scars. Uprooted. Ripped out. The spoils of massive plundering. Today, it's me they have chosen like their finest and most legitimate victim!"
www.imdb.com/title/tt3101...
Film 1: The Spoils
Clarence Epstein: "These paintings that we are trying to recover we consider to be like the last prisoners of war."
Ludwig Von Pufendorf: "'The last prisoners of war ...' A vile phrase. Loathsome. Shame on him."
www.imdb.com/title/tt3284...
Clarence Epstein: "These paintings that we are trying to recover we consider to be like the last prisoners of war."
Ludwig Von Pufendorf: "'The last prisoners of war ...' A vile phrase. Loathsome. Shame on him."
www.imdb.com/title/tt3284...
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Film 1: The Spoils
Clarence Epstein: "These paintings that we are trying to recover we consider to be like the last prisoners of war."
Ludwig Von Pufendorf: "'The last prisoners of war ...' A vile phrase. Loathsome. Shame on him."
www.imdb.com/title/tt3284...
Clarence Epstein: "These paintings that we are trying to recover we consider to be like the last prisoners of war."
Ludwig Von Pufendorf: "'The last prisoners of war ...' A vile phrase. Loathsome. Shame on him."
www.imdb.com/title/tt3284...