Claire McNab

#UK institutions including the #NaturalHistoryMuseum & #CambridgeUniversity hold more than 263,000 human remains, #TheGuardian finds. 37,996 of these items are identified as being from outside the UK.

I have encountered evidence of so many horrors of the #BritishEmpire that I am rarely shocked. Often angered, but rarely surprised.

But the sheer scale of this global #graveRobbery stuns. YOU #GHOULS! 😡

1/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/07/vast-scale-of-overseas-human-remains-held-in-uk-museums-decried-by-mps-and-experts
2/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/07/what-human-remains-are-held-in-uk-museums-and-where

#colonialism #ukpol #rage #sickos

Mar 7 at 7:46pmWeb
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@2legged A horizontal bar chart titled "Non-European human remains held in UK institutions" displays the number of human remains held in UK institutions by region. It shows bars for Africa (11,856), Asia (9,550), Oceania (3,252), N America (2,276), S America (1,980), and Unknown (16,236), each represented by a blue horizontal bar extending to the right. The chart includes the text "Guardian graphic, Source: Guardian analysis of FOI requests. Note: Items of human remains, not individuals" below the bars. Each region name is listed vertically on the left with a corresponding bar length indicating its count. The Unknown category has the longest bar.
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A horizontal bar chart titled "UK institutions with most non-European human remains" displays numerical data on the number of non-European human remains held by various UK institutions. The bars are arranged in descending order of count, with the Natural History Museum at the top with 11,785, followed by University of Cambridge, DCMS with 8,740, British Museum with 2,269, University of Oxford with 2,008, Science Museum Group with 1,013, University of Edinburgh with 934, National Museums Liverpool with 574, National Museums of Scotland with 320, University of Glasgow with 109, and University College London with 98. The chart includes the text "Guardian graphic. Source: Guardian analysis of FOI requests. Note: Items of human remains, not individuals" at the bottom. The chart uses solid blue bars to represent each institution’s count, with clear numerical labels next to each bar. This visualization summarizes the distribution of non-European human remains across UK institutions based on Freedom of Information requests.
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A horizontal bar chart titled "UK institutions with the most human remains" compares the number of human remains held by UK institutions. It shows blue bars extending to the right for each institution, with counts listed as University of Winchester (30,488), Natural History Museum (27,864), University of Cambridge (20,110), University of Bristol (20,000), University of Sheffield (7,753), King's College London (7,500), Amgueddfa Cymru (7,391), Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon (6,400), British Museum (5,864), and Dumfries and Galloway council (5,705). Longer bars indicate higher numbers of human remains. The chart includes a source credit: "Guardian graphic. Source: Guardian analysis of FOI requests." A note at the bottom specifies "Note: Items of human remains, not individuals".

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