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Welcome to May 2022, and to another round-up of the history news headlines from last month...

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News from 2021: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnWtthsbeLjhMIvLaXog3TMJc4wT8aHQS
News from 2022: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnWtthsbeLjjE36m_GmMs9RbnyKnpGe_h

References and relevant articles (screenshots taken from here):
April Fool’s Day:
Screenshots from Twitter for selected April Fool’s pranks, also screen recording of a video from the same.
Shakespeare’s family ring found: https://rb.gy/nlyl56

Updates:
The Forgotten Movement to Reclaim Africa’s Stolen Art: https://rb.gy/pbrtf3
Book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0691234736?ots=1&linkCode=gs2&tag=tnyuk-21

“Restitution: Africa’s Fight for Its Art” article: https://rb.gy/hjaptm
Film (PBS): https://www.pbs.org/video/restitution-africas-fight-for-its-art-6lH7oO/

British Museum Parthenon Marbles 3D scan: https://hyperallergic.com/722684/british-museum-denies-request-to-3d-scan-parthenon-marbles/

Dinosaur embryo fossil: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1591122/science-breakthrough-dinosaur-embryo-ancient-history-birds-spt

New news:
Damage to Ukrainian cultural sites:
https://www.npr.org/2022/04/02/1090475172/unesco-ukraine-cultural-sites-damage?t=1650842952589
https://www.unesco.org/en/ukraine-war/actions-timeline
Book translation volunteer form: https://digitallibrary.io/translate-a-story-for-ukraine/

Charles Darwin’s notebooks: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60980288

Auctions:
Michelangelo drawing: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/michelangelo-drawing-paris-auction/index.html

50 old masters: https://www.barrons.com/articles/mark-wahlberg-lists-longtime-beverly-hills-home-for-87-5-million-01649428140

Picasso: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/07/picasso-portrait-of-lover-and-muse-to-appear-at-auction-for-first-time

Pollock: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/jackson-pollock-painting-45-million-christies-1234625733/

Brontë manuscript: https://news.sky.com/story/charlotte-bronte-miniature-manuscript-by-novelist-aged-13-sells-for-1-25m-and-to-return-to-yorkshire-home-12598881

Viewer recommendations:
Mithaka Country: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-04/-mithaka-cultural-landscape-silk-road/100959802
Exhibition: https://anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/exhibitions/kirrenderri-heart-channel-country
Yirra site: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-08/wa-indigenous-sacred-site-more-than-50000-years-old/100976332
Celtic royal graves: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/possible-royal-graves-dated-to-the-time-of-king-arthur-found-in-great-britain-180979927/
Iron age burial found: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/iron-age-human-remains-found-by-builders-working-on-former-north-yorkshire-police-headquarters-3665236

Sheriff of Nottingham’s ring: https://www.upworthy.com/guy-with-a-metal-detector-astonished-to-find-a-ring-that-belonged-to-the-sheriff-of-nottingham?rebelltitem=4#rebelltitem4
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/sheriff-nottingham-0016568

Occum: https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2022/03/dartmouth-give-occom-papers-mohegan-tribe

Ancient grenades: https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-think-they-ve-found-ancient-1-000-year-old-hand-grenades

Cannon: https://apnews.com/article/science-savannah-us-navy-e64a3849bbba152fd2d3549ad401d18b

Exhibitions and Events:
“Feminine power: the divine to the demonic”: https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/feminine-power-divine-demonic

“The Tudors: Passion, Power and Politics”: https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/walker-art-gallery/exhibition/tudors-passion-power-and-politics
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/apr/20/story-of-henry-viiis-black-trumpeter-to-be-told-at-walker-art-gallery-in-liverpool

Motion: Autos, Art and Architecture: https://www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitions/motion-autos-art-architecture
https://www.dezeen.com/2022/04/07/motion-autos-art-architecture-norman-foster-car-exhibition-guggenheim-bilbao/

Degas: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/04/21/christies-degas-dancer-hologram-tour-auction
https://www.christies.com/en/auction/the-collection-of-anne-h-bass-29838/

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