‘It’s quite a thing to do a show here and openly use the word looting’: artist Hew Locke on decolonising the British Museum
After his triumphant Tate installation, The Procession, the artist is preparing a radical exhibition tackling Britain’s imperial past. He talks about why we must return plundered artefacts and rethink attitudes to heritage
Detectorist’s hoard of 1,000-year-old coins that could rewrite English history sells for millions
Amateur detectorist Adam Staples knew he’d found something when his metal detector let out a beep. And then another. And another.Soon “it was just ‘beep beep, beep beep, beep beep,’” Staples said.In a farmer’s field in southwest England, Staples and six friends had found a hoard of more than 2,500 silver coins that had lain in the ground for almost 1,000 years. Valued at £4.3 million and now bound for a museum, they will help shed light on the turbulent aftermath of the Norman conquest of England.“The first one was a William the Conqueror coin — 1,000 pounds, 1,500...