A preview of our new webinar series with Dr Hugh Doherty

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These six talks explore the history of plunder and loot through six different sets of objects – a pair of obelisks, a temple treasure, a set of bronzes horses, an altarpiece, a series of palace reliefs and a tapestry. Through the series we travel from the Nineveh of Ashurbanipal to the Perugia of Perugino, from the Rome of Augustus to the Paris of Napoleon; encounter a blind doge of Venice, a French Revolutionary commissioner and an English explorer of the Ottoman-Persian border; and meet various vandals, crusaders, revolutionaries and resistance fighters. Greed and ruthlessness, it is true, loom large in this narrative, but so too do daring, decency, idealism and learning.

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