The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Dan Hicks hurst they leave on the last

they leave on the last train out of the city before it is seized by the Bolsheviks

with the collapse of the Soviet Union

Magnitogorsk and Kharkiv

the traditionally Russian-speaking city in Eastern Ukraine where he makes his home

Fraser Grace began writing for the stage whilst working for Back-to-Back Theatre

The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution by Dan Hicks hurst they leave on the lastWalk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes a collection of thousands of metal plaques and sculptures depicting the history of the Royal