Speaking at Hay festival, BBC historian says museums are full of objects from countries that are now trading partners

British museums should send back thousands of objects taken from former colonies to help build bridges in the post-Brexit world, according to the historian David Olusoga.

Olusoga, who was one of the three presenters of the recent BBC series Civilisations, told the Hay literary festival that European and American museums were full of objects taken in violent raids from countries that are now the UK’s trading partners.

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