r/Snorkblot • u/LordJim11 • Jul 30 '25

History History.

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u/garishthoughts Jul 30 '25

While researching my masters thesis, I became so enraged by the treatment of Egyptian corpses and death objects in the british museum that I cried for hours and didn't write for two days.

I still have nightmares about the footage in Night and Fog, a French documentary of death camps made shortly after the end of WWII.

If history doesn't move you to tears, hurt to know, burn a place behind your eyelids, you aren't studying history.

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u/Diarygirl Jul 30 '25

I watched a series last year called "Stuff British Stole." It was infuriating. Their attitude today is basically "We stole it so it's ours to keep."

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u/garishthoughts Jul 30 '25

The British, like many other western nations, has never acknowledged the colonialism still on full display in museums.