By Andrew Heavens, author of "The Prince and the Plunder", about how Britain took piles of loot and one small boy from Ethiopia. Interested in all things pillaged, and in Bob, and in skiffle. Champion of Wiggle Wiggle on Pod Dylan.https://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mqpe7tvcvc2fThank you so much to Kumnei for inviting me to to talk about Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu on her excellent new Kumneger Podcast. A great conversation. We address the key question - should he stay or should he go home. https://youtu.be/UEmotfUIFP8?si=vhwhfW5MHxSqk00Z15 Jul 2026 18:32 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqpe7tvcvc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mp3zmuodv22dRadio 3 plays soft. But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off.25 Jun 2026 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp3zmuodv22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mo33lubjns2eThe prettiest plundering scene I ever did see. "Tapestry with a plundering scene, Flanders, late 16th century. In a setting of valleys and woods, a scene of plunder under the watchful eye of Spanish soldiers." Yours for €2,000 - €3,000 https://www.bonhams.com/auction/31804/lot/145/tapisserie-figurant-une-scene-de-rapine-flandres-fin-du-xvi-siecle-tapestry-with-a-plundering-scene-flanders-late-16th-century/12 Jun 2026 06:14 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo33lubjns2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mnffpbudc22fFor the Beatles completist in your life. #beatles [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Jun 2026 15:16 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnffpbudc22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mnfeszhtlk2z'Battersea Rain Dance' by Chris Barber & His Band Featuring yell by Paul McCartney (copyright Apple Publishing) #realtreasure03 Jun 2026 15:00 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnfeszhtlk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mm6spl4kgk25Game of Thrones loot for sale. Gold bar used in the Season 7 episode "The Spoils of War", yours for c £400. See how it glisters - https://www.ewbankauctions.co.uk/280526MP-lot-5082-Game-of-Thrones-2011-2019-Production-made-Gold-Bar-prop-from-the?arr=0&auction_id=1173&box_filter=0&category=&department_id=&exclude_keyword=&export_issue=0&high_estimate=0&image_filter=0&keyword=loot&list_type=&lots_per_page=0&low_estimate=0&month=&page_no=0&paper_filter=0&search_type=&sort_by=&view=lot_detail&year=19 May 2026 06:55 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm6spl4kgk25https://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mlzwrmd6h22e🧵1/10 Lancaster’s Kings Own Royal Regiment Museum has returned a lock of hair taken from the body of Ethiopia’s Emperor Tewodros, and a piece of cloth stained with his blood. A big deal. But the significance goes beyond an act of restitution ... https://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/ceremony-marks-formal-handover-of-ancient-relics-of-former-emperor-of-ethiopia-discovered-at-lancaster-city-museum-854314517 May 2026 08:25 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlzwrmd6h22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mkris6vuxs25"As Nazi Troops retreated from the town of Darmstadt, Germany, civilians who decided to stay behind, ran wild in an orgy of looting." 3 April 1945 https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/chiswick-auctions/catalogue-id-srchis11182/lot-94a3ab9d-0a14-4779-8ab6-b43c00f1c63501 May 2026 06:28 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkris6vuxs25https://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mkp2xd3t7k2dThis is not loot..."kein Kriegsraubgut"! An icon acquired at the Battle of Smolensk as the Nazis charged into Russia. "This was acquired for a fee and is therefore not war loot," reads the label. So that's alright then. Now you can acquire it for a fee. https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/auktionshaus-mehlis/catalogue-id-srauktio10052/lot-09a185e8-8a48-466f-b33b-b4390120a91130 Apr 2026 07:15 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkp2xd3t7k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mjjdmibaik2sOne of the repeated stories about Britain's 1868 invasion of Ethiopia is that Emperor Tewodros took his own life with a pistol given to him by Queen Victoria. But, as @alulapankhurst.bsky.social says, there were other guns around ... https://x.com/alulapan/status/204411616709938837815 Apr 2026 07:09 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjdmibaik2shttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mjeadfhyak2sMore catch-up on Ethiopian plunder. The hairpin of Ethiopia's Queen Terunesh returns home, with the help of the Royal Ethiopian Trust and plunder-watchers including @alulapankhurst.bsky.social https://x.com/alulapan/status/203752798466025913513 Apr 2026 06:27 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjeadfhyak2shttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mjbsqwz4ws2sLots to catch up on in the Ethiopian plunder-sphere. Let's start with a pair of slippers. They have been sitting for decades in the V&A's vaults, "miscatalogued" as Turkish. Now linked to Maqdala and Queen Terunesh by super-researcher Molly Judd. https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/museum-life/researching-the-provenance-of-the-vas-ethiopian-objects12 Apr 2026 07:18 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjbsqwz4ws2shttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mjbr3lzjuc2sThe people who should win this year's Nobel Peace Prize - the volunteers running Sudan's Emergency Response Rooms https://www.ft.com/content/e9fcf5ce-dbb1-4fa7-b7e1-827fb1845f6d?syn-25a6b1a6=112 Apr 2026 06:49 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjbr3lzjuc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3mcrdf4rra22zTop five things to take the edge off #BlueMonday 1-The Forkiverse - theforkiverse.com 2-The A Book - A Place podcast by Robin Pomeroy - robinpomeroy.wordpress.com @robinpomeroy.bsky.social 3-The ill-advised podcast with Bill Nighy 4-The reborn Observer 5-The Iron Maiden scene in 28 Years Later19 Jan 2026 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcrdf4rra22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3m7amh42u4s2a"The British Museum now acknowledges that the Asante Ewer was loot, a term the institution would not have used until recent years. In an 'object in focus' book, just published, the Asante Ewer is acknowledged as 'looted'." Again, Go Ghana https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/12/02/british-museums-looted-ewer-set-for-return-to-ghana-on-long-term-loan05 Dec 2025 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7amh42u4s2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3m76jivid5s2zA beautiful hairpin that belonged to Prince Alemayehu's mother - Empress Tiruwork - is going back to Ethiopia c. 160 years after it was taken by the British military doctor who treated her last illness. Congrats to all involved @alulapankhurst.bsky.social https://royalethiopiantrust.org/the-return-of-imperial-hairpin/04 Dec 2025 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3m76jivid5s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3m73nbqraz22qStepping back into socials with some real treasure - without a doubt, the greatest album cover ever. Not the greatest album ever, but Sandy Brown's 1957 'McJazz' is notable for including a Scot's best wishes to newly indepedent Africa. With opening track 'Go Ghana' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DddbWP9gCE03 Dec 2025 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3m73nbqraz22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3lwsyzre7k22vFather and son! Thank you so much to Mariamawit Y Yeshak for taking Alemayehu, via her copy of 'The Prince and the Plunder', to the statue of his father's great cannon in Addis Ababa. Really moving. Please send in other sightings. #friendsofalemayehu #theprinceandtheplunder #Ethiopia20 Aug 2025 08:27 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwsyzre7k22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3lun3iwn4hc22"We are going to do whatever it takes to take back Africa's belongings. And we're going to do it together!" Relooted, coming soon from South African game developer Nyamakop @nyamakop youtu.be/KgPxPfXb734 https://youtu.be/KgPxPfXb73423 Jul 2025 13:05 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lun3iwn4hc22https://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3lu2wmwia7s2w"About 85 per cent of people in immigration custody are held in places run for profit, according to Syracuse University’s Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), an archive of government data and reports. "https://ig.ft.com/us-immigration-detention/16 Jul 2025 07:50 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu2wmwia7s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3lty6jhy6gc2tWe don't need plunder. We have enough treasure of our own. The southern door at St. Nicholas Church, Barfrestone (pop. 60) near Dover - s645975992.websitehome.co.uk "One of the best late Norman churches in Kent," said John Betjeman.15 Jul 2025 05:33 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lty6jhy6gc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3lty5kltsuc2tYou've heard of the Prince and the Plunder. Meet the Love Guru and the Loot. Lytchett Minster Parish Church, Sunday15 Jul 2025 05:16 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lty5kltsuc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3ltvx3vmppk24Here starts the campaign for Britain to repatriate the plundered acronym "PAC", in fact the whole concept. It belongs in the US of A. "Great British Pac calls for an end to any negotiations to return the Parthenon sculptures or risk legal challenges." https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jul/11/campaigners-parthenon-elgin-marbles-sculptures-return-greece-british-museum14 Jul 2025 08:15 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltvx3vmppk24https://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3lt262paqdk2tThrilled to report that Barbara Blake Hannah - yes *that* Barbara Blake Hannah - has reviewed "The Prince and the Plunder". "So vivid and descriptive that at times I felt I was watching a documentary film, not just reading a book." Thank you! https://www.theprinceandtheplunder.com/2025/07/02/review-barbara-blake-hannah-on-the-prince-and-the-plunder/03 Jul 2025 07:05 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt262paqdk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3ls4zus2c4k2nEthiopia's 1983-85 famine: the musical.21 Jun 2025 17:03 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls4zus2c4k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3lrayu4ot5k2kLatin scholars, please help. I am trying to translate this memorial for Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu in Rugby School chapel. How close has Google Translate got me? Cunning - really? Players or playmates? And are those dates right? They don't match the record.10 Jun 2025 13:30 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrayu4ot5k2khttps://bsky.app/profile/andrewheavens.bsky.social/post/3lqa2adrqys2zThe South London Press, where I did my first work experience, just "abruptly" shut down. https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/south-london-press-closed/ The first newspapers to pay me - the @chardandilynews.bsky.social and the @expressandstar.com - are still there, but scaled down. Brave new future a little less shiny this am28 May 2025 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:eubth72cy44mmshbd5udkhro/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqa2adrqys2z