READ MORE - As mob rule shuts British Museum... How much more of this anarchic ... the 'very senior and prestigious' position of acting keeper in 2021. The curator - who denies all the claims ...

Tom Harrison, keeper of the British Museum’s department of Greece and Rome, told the PA news agency that getting back 357 stolen artefacts, so far, from six collectors had been “very ...

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He was educated at Marlborough school and Oxford and was a classical and Sanskrit scholar. From 1868 he worked at the British Museum becoming Keeper of Manuscripts in 1888 and Egerton librarian. In ...

But the platypus, as it was soon realised, was not among these. George Shaw, keeper of the natural history collections at the British Museum (which were to later become the Natural History Museum), ...