Lord Elgin, a staunch patriot, had turned down lucrative offers from other governments for the treasures, and argued all along that the marbles would add luster to Britain’s imperial image.

There has been a longstanding disagreement between Greece and the UK about whether the marbles should be returned ... one Lord Elgin in a callous act of imperial theft. In the bustle of central ...

Chinese imperial food dates back to slave society. Ever since there were emperors and palaces, there has been imperial food, which was served mainly to the emperors, their wives and concubines ...

The world’s most expensive marbles used to plan the Dambusters raid have sold for $18,600. Bouncing-bomb creator Barnes ...

Sir Barnes Wallis used a catapult to fire his daughter Mary’s marbles along a bath of water in his garden to work out the trajectory needed to skim his invention over nets and blow up Nazi dams ...

Time, tillage and rainfall reveal the sharecropper’s last testament: forgotten clusters of magnificent clay, agate and glass marbles. On a clear day in early May, Bernie Wright is walking rows ...

So for example, a 10 kg dumbbell would be 22 lbs. Imperial units such as feet, pints, ounces and miles are used alongside metric units like metres, millilitres and kilometres. In the UK we use ...

Hew Locke at the British Museum review: a dense but endlessly fascinating look at untold histories - 4/5 The artist is after ...

Miles, feet and inches are old units of length. These are known as imperial units of length but are not now commonly used in maths. There are 12 inches in a foot. An inch is roughly equal to 2.5 ...

YouTuber Jenna Marbles has announced she's leaving the video sharing site. In an eleven-minute video, she talks about what she describes as "shameful" content she's made in the past. The 33-year ...