The battle for the Pitt Rivers

unherd.com/us/2025/07/the-battle-for-the-pitt-rivers

A row has brewed between a world-famous museum of anthropology in Oxford and a clutch of leading historians of Africa who think the museum’s director has naively put her “decolonising” zeal ahead of historical accuracy. The rift concerns a collection of artefacts in the university’s Pitt…

This story appeared on unherd.com, 2025-06-30 23:00:40.
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