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The Rapa Nui people believe that repatriation would help close ‘the sad chapter’ of 19th-century looting
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In the age of Brexit, why Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge to return the ‘stolen’ Parthenon marbles has never been more urgent
Corbyn says that the sculptures ‘belong to Greece’, and supports return of all colonial loot in British museums
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Protestors temporarily close the British Museum and William Kentridge weighs in on the migrant crisis
