Though I had never been happy about them being in London, it was a visceral shock to see them through Greek eyes. The Parthenon Sculptures (let’s call them as they should be named) seemed diminished in the austere Duveen Gallery on a cold Bloomsbury afternoon, rather than in the light of Attica. The feeling was inescapable. They are in the wrong place.
Michael Wood

Michael Wood joins BCRPM

: 07 January 2022

Historian, broadcaster and public history professor at the University of Manchester, Michael Wood has joined BCRPM.

On Tuesday 04 Januray 2022, Michael's article in History Extra on the 'the future of the Parthenon Sculptures' was published. A topic that has been at the heart of the BCRPM campaign for 39 years.

This week, on Wednesday, a jury also heard that it was a criminal offence to keep the statue of Edward Colston up in Bristol's public park "The Centre" because it was so offensive and that it was beyond belief that it had been up for so long.

For the Greeks alongside so many more nationalities, that have stood in Room 18 looking at the fragmented sculptures forcibly removed from the Parthenon, they too cannot believe that it is two centuries since Greece's independence and yet today, the halves in the Acropolis Museum continue to be divided with those that are in the British Museum.

BCRPM Chair Janet Suzman and Vice-Chair Professor Paul Cartledge, alongside the members of BCRPM were delighted to welcome Michael Wood as a new 2022 BCRPM member.

You can read Michael's article in History Extra with the link here.