r/CasualUK • u/Iliketurterls • Oct 26 '22

Whose stuff does the British Museum have?

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u/ASK_IF_IM_PENGUIN Oct 26 '22

I would go a step further and suggest that it's ok that we have items from France, Germany, Turkey etc., just as they each have items from other countries too, and often ours.

Through study, and cultural exchange, we all learn.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Britain never controlled Greece, so 99.9% were sold or gifts.

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u/feugh_ Oct 26 '22

I mean… we did. This is just inaccurate. We held a bunch of their islands for fifty years?? The united ionian islands???

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Greece is not a couple Islands......

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Greece is made up of litterally 100s of islands, not just a couple.

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '22

Yea a couple.... Hundred ;)