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Should Museums Return Their Treasures?
“The best way to respect people who came before us is to research history without judging it through the eyes of the present” In the early eighth century, monks at Wearmouth-Jarrow Abbey produced three enormous bibles. Two remained in Northumbria, bu
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Editor Matt Elton matt.elton@immediate.co.uk Group editor Rob Attar Group art editor Susanne Frank Senior deputy art editor Rachel Dickens Art editor, special editions Sarah Lambert Group production editor Spencer Mizen Subeditor Rhiannon Davies Sect
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Jeanne Baret: Naturalist, Pioneer, Circumnavigator
Jeanne Baret (1740–1807) was born to poor parents in the Burgundy region of central France. In her early twenties she was engaged as housekeeper to one of the brightest young scientists in France, Philibert Commerson (or Commerçon), and became his mi

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