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How the stolen Parish Missal was returned to the people of Groix

January 15, 2024

Last summer, in a packed church on a small island in Brittany, the local mayor presented an Englishman with the Medal of Groix, its name taken from the aforementioned island. The recipient was Christopher Edwards, an antiquarian bookseller who also happens to be my father. He had done what various nationalities have urged the British

High Societies

December 06, 2021

Lucien de Guise reviews Peru: a journey in time at the British Museum

Reappraising Rome’s rock-star emperor

July 01, 2021

The British Museum’s handsome Nero show burnishes his legacy but glosses over his treatment of Christians.

British Museum’s Nero exhibit is ‘hair-flattening’ take on infamous figure

May 27, 2021

"It’s not a whitewash of the man whose very name suggests darkness," writes Lucien de Guise. "This exhibition is more of a blank slate, trying to rehabilitate an individual whose reputation is unknown to younger visitors."

A Martyr for all Seasons

May 25, 2021

The British Museum’s dazzling survey of the life and legacy of the cult 12th-century saint Thomas Becket is set to be an unlikely summer blockbuster, reports Guy Hayward

‘A haunting glimpse of what we lost’: Virgin and Child returns to England after 600 years

December 12, 2016

Masterpiece that survived the Reformation is now on display at the British Museum

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January 21, 2016

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The Pope’s coca tea was no more stimulating than a cup of coffee

July 09, 2015

Reports that Francis planned to 'do cocaine' in South America were outrageously misleading