British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles

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The British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles (BCRPM) is a group of British people who support the return of the Parthenon (Elgin) marbles to Athens, Greece. The Committee was established in 1983. Current members include Dame Janet Suzman (chairperson){{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Helena |date=2022-06-18 |title=Group of British MPs and peers call for Parthenon marbles to return to Greece |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/18/parthenon-marbles-must-return-to-greece-british-mps-and-peers-write |access-date=2023-07-31 |issn=0261-3077}} and professors Anthony Snodgrass (honorary president),{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Helena |date=2022-05-23 |title=Greece rebuts British Museum claim Parthenon marbles were 'removed from rubble' |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/23/greece-rebuts-british-museum-claim-parthenon-marbles-were-removed-from-rubble |access-date=2023-06-14 |issn=0261-3077}} Paul Cartledge (Vice-Chair),{{Cite web |last=Cartledge |first=Paul |date=2023-06-11 |title=Elgin, Byron, and those marbles revisited |url=https://neoskosmos.com/en/2023/06/12/dialogue/opinion/elgin-byron-and-those-marbles-revisited/ |access-date=2023-06-14 |website=NEOS KOSMOS |language=en}} and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill.{{Cite web |title=Marmi del Partenone: tra qualche anno Londra non avrà più scelta |url=https://www.ilgiornaledellarte.com/articoli/marmi-del-partenone-tra-qualche-anno-londra-non-avr-pi-scelta/142955.html |access-date=2023-07-31 |website=Il Giornale dell'arte |language=IT}}

Further reading

  • Tom Flynn, The Universal Museum (Lulu, 2012)
  • Christopher Hitchens, The Parthenon Marbles: A Case for Reunification (with a preface by Nadine Gordimer and essays by Robert Browning and Charalambos Bouras) (Verso, May 2008)
  • Dorothy King, The Elgin Marbles (Hutchinson, January 2006)
  • Mary Beard, The Parthenon (Profile Books, 2004)
  • Jeanette Greenfield, The Return of Cultural Treasures (Cambridge University Press 2007)
  • Ian Jenkins, The Parthenon Frieze (British Museum Press, 2002)
  • William St Clair, Lord Elgin and the Marbles (Oxford University Press, 1998)
  • Catharine Titi, The Parthenon Marbles and International Law (Springer, 2023)

See also

References

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=Organisations that support the cause=

  • [http://www.melinamercourifoundation.org.gr/ Melina Mercouri Foundation]
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0_dN_gQmEg Bring Them Back (youtube video)]
  • [http://www.acropolisofathens.gr/ Acropolis of Athens]

Category:Art and cultural repatriation

Category:Organizations established in 1983

Category:Cultural organisations based in the United Kingdom

Category:Greece–United Kingdom relations

Category:Elgin Marbles