British Committee
@BCRPM
Founded in 1983, BCRPM are a group of British people who having considered the case for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, strongly support it.
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http://www.parthenonuk.com 30-06-2009 10:11:47
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Nomadpossum 🐟🇬🇷 🇦🇺 ‘Dull is the eye that will not weep to see
Thy walls defaced, thy mouldering shrines removed
By British hands.’
Lord Byron
🎥The 6️⃣th edition of #InShortFilmFestival Europe #bestofthebest is just around the corner! Excited for 🇬🇷 Short Film participation, with the Piece of Liberty by Antigoni Kapaka.
🕖📍20-21 April – Glasgow Film Festival
🕖📍26-28 April – Institut français UK
EUNIC LONDON EU Delegation UK
🔥 The Olympic flame was lit today at the Games' birthplace, in ancient Olympia, #Greece , and is on its way to #France for Paris 2024
A symbol of peace and friendship between peoples, the flame will now be carried through 🇬🇷 and 🇫🇷 by thousands of torchbearers
French Embassy UK🇫🇷🇪🇺
Dubious rogueclassicist ~ david meadows Each request deserves and should be considered on a case by case basis. There are 8 million artefacts in the BM (10%, a fraction is on display), + formal requests made to the BM are few dispelling ludicrous fear of 'floodgates' and the denuding of museums
Sad to see Robert Jenrick article on the #Parthenon Marbles is based on the same self-serving pamphlet written by a syphilitic Elgin whilst in self imposed exile in Paris: because his contemporaries had shunned from polite society for despoiling the #Marbles
Remedy based on truth
Professor Stampolidis, General Director of the Acropolis Museum on the Parthenon Marbles and their continued division
parthenonuk.com/latest-news/87…
📷 credit Paris Tavitian
#acropolismuseum #parthenonmarbles #reunitetheparthenonmarbles
British Committee Mark Stephens Kathimerini English Edition Athanasios Katsikidis It would be a great gesture if the next Government were to act speedily to facilitate the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece.
“Outside Athens and Greece any Parthenon Marbles held abroad risk looking like imperial loot without much if any current cultural-political significance.' Kathimerini English Edition Athanasios Katsikidis
parthenonuk.com/latest-news/87…
#reunitetheparthenonmarbles #timeisnow #TellTheStory
10 more days to catch this 👇parthenonuk.com/latest-news/87…
#acropolismuseum #museums #exhibition
Blog on abject failure to find Tacitus' Scots, or indeed Romans in Britain on our rain-sodden family holiday in Aberdeenshire, but fun with TV series SUCCESSION and restorative Greek myth and art in the Granite City. British Committee edithorial.blogspot.com/2024/03/greeks…
Welcome to the British Museum's new Director Nicholas Cullinan: 'The fact that our national museums and galleries offer free admission is something we should be proud of and celebrate.' (2016)