The Marbles & the Muses | James Romm A.E. Stallings’s reflections on the Elgin Marbles illustrate how beautiful objects have the power to inspire both the noblest effusions and the pettiest efforts at acquisition.

The New York Review of Books calls FRIEZE FRAME by A. E. Stallings a "lively, ingenious, humane set of essays." @nybooks.com @consortiumbooks.bsky.social #elginmarbles #parthenon #Greece #BritishMuseum #poetry
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At #HOMEmcr for #DavidWilkinson 's documentary #TheMarbles which examines the past removal of the #ParthenonMarbles - incorrectly called the #ElginMarbles - and the campaign to return them to their home in #Greece.

The Elgin Marbles - (The Parthenon Sculptures) Removed from Ottoman Greece in the early 19th century and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.

Time to give them back?

#Alphabetchallenge #WeekEForEponymous #EastCoastKin #photographersofbluesky #photography #ElginMarbles

Vaguely familiar? Parts of friezes on the pedestal's of the #Acropolis the bits #LordElgin left behind after plundering the good stuff. Now insultingly called the #ElginMarbles seeing these fragments makes it so clear the sculptures must be returned to Greece - their proper place. (sound down)

Marbles Bulletin 2026/01 | Dr Mario Trabucco della Torretta Get more from Dr Mario Trabucco della Torretta on Patreon

Starting this week, I have decided to publish a weekly bulletin with progress reports and intelligence about the #ElginMarbles saga, including updates on my manuscript and "opposition watch". I hope people will find it useful

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Γλυπτά σε σταυροδρόμι: Μπορούν Βρετανία και Ελλάδα να καταλήξουν σε συμφωνία; | ΤΟ ΒΗΜΑ Αισιόδοξος ο Τζορτζ Όσμπορν, αλλά η επιστροφή των Γλυπτών του Παρθενώνα παραμένει αβέβαιη

My comments on the recent declarations by George Osborne and Victoria Hislop on the #ElginMarbles for the Greek newspaper TO BHMA

(in 🇬🇷, but you can read a translated version with Chrome)

www.tovima.gr/2025/12/17/w...

Given the current understanding of issues around antiquities, it can't have been recent.

So even if the gift hypothesis is the case, such items of cultural and historical significance SHOULD be returned to the place of origin.

#ElginMarbles #TheBritishMusuem @museumsassociation.org

#OTD in Paris, died Lord Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, 11th Earl of Kinkardine (1766-1841)

*** Unacknowledged Martyr of Western Culture ***

#ElginMarbles #ParthenonSculptures #BritishMuseum

Greece criticizes British Museum dinner among Parthenon Sculptures | eKathimerini.com Culture Minister Lina Mendoni has criticized the dinner organized by the British Museum in the hall housing the Parthenon Sculptures, calling it offensive.

Parthenon Sculptures used as "decorative elements" for inaugural Pink Ball dinner - hosted by British Museum
#ParthenonSculptures #ElginMarbles
www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1284...

Tried looking as unimpressed as possible, especially since I've been to the actual Parthenon this year.

I've never been pissed off by a room before.

#elginmarbles

And British museums for forrin artefacts. Innit. #ElginMarbles

Oh look, academics run scared of evidence-based confrontation on the #ElginMarbles here as well! Then it's just like that other place! 😂

Lettuce Liz shouting about losing marbles seems a little on the nose if you ask me… #ElginMarbles #LizTruss

Liz Truss: 'We stole the marbles, so they're English forever. That's how it works.'

#ParthenonSculptures #ElginMarbles

Call for British Museum to take Bayeux tapestry to ‘1066 country’ MP calls for region where Battle of Hastings took place to be included in events surrounding return of artwork

By all means. But also return the #ElginMarbles to Athens! Permanently!

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

British culture being nicking stuff from other people?
#elginmarbles

Bayeux Tapestry to return to the UK for first time in 900 years The Bayeux Tapestry, which illustrates the famous Battle Of Hastings of 1066, will go on display at the British Museum in London.

It would be fitting, and hilarious, if the #BayeuxTapestry, to be loaned next year by #France to the #UK, were to be displayed in the space at the #BritishMuseum vacated by the return to Greece of the Parthenon Marbles aka #ElginMarbles.
What an opportunity!

One of our former PMs (Trump supporter and born again fascist) isn't known for a nuanced and knowledgeable appreciation of cultural matters.

#liztruss #elginmarbles #greece #ignorance #culture

Liz Truss and far-right group accused of scaremongering over Parthenon marbles Ex-PM reportedly among those saying they will take legal action over ‘covert’ plans to return sculptures to Greece

Liz Truss, David Starkey, John Redwood, Claire Bullivant and Ben Habib, all worried that they’re going to lose their marbles. Too bloody late, they lost theirs years ago!
God knows what Rupert Lowe thinks about it!
#ParthenonMarbles #ElginMarbles
#GreatBritishPac

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Liz Truss has lost her marbles so is determined to keep hold of the Elgin ones
#ElginMarbles

Parthenon Sculptures East Pediment #photogrammetry scan. Currently in the British Museum.

3D: skfb.ly/oFoCW

#ParthenonMarbles #ElginMarbles #Greece #Acropolis

#ParthenonSculptures Still in UK
previously the #ElginMarbles
➕ #EarlElgin (stranger than fiction) www.britannica.com/biography/Th... 🔚 #MUSEUMS #BritishMuseum

The Netherlands returns 119 stolen sculptures to Nigeria The Benin Bronzes were artefacts stolen during the UK’s imperial plunder of Benin, modern-day southern Nigeria.

As the #Netherlands returns 119 #stolen sculptures to #Nigeria The #BeninBronzes were artefacts #stolen during the #UK’sImperial plunder of Benin, modern-day southern Nigeria. It's now more than time #Britain should return other looted artifacts. Such as the #ElginMarbles to #Greece

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My letter to the Times in response to Baroness Debbonaire and Lord Frost's column the other day about a permanent return of the #ElginMarbles

At last! A great opportunity to display proper British stuff and prevent traffic jams in Wiltshire. #ElginMarbles

Where should the Elgin Marbles be displayed? | Mario Trabucco della Torretta | The Critic Magazine People familiar with the Pareto principle, the rough correlation between 20 per cent of the inputs and 80 per cent of the outcomes, won’t be surprised to see it applied to the secretive machinations…

My latest piece on The Critic, in which I discuss the most recent "progress" in the #ElginMarbles "loan" negotiations and one very problematic aspect, which will make everything fall apart

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What does #StGeorge have to do with the #ElginMarbles? As it turns out, quite a bit.

Find out with me in the next episode of Marbles Games, my YouTube series on the Elgin Marbles and their wider cultural context!

youtu.be/DL2O-TSuldc

If you have time today, listen to the fascinating discussion I had with John Gilliam on the Thinking Class podcast the other day, which just hit the screens today.

We discussed the #BritishMuseum, the #ElginMarbles, #FakeHistory narratives, and the future of #Museums.

youtu.be/dYbVcWQuiu8?...

Spot the problem with this picture #elginmarbles #elginmarbles

New today! From the award-winning poet and Oxford Professor of Poetry A. E. Stallings
#parthenonmarbles #britishmuseum #elginmarbles
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