Historian Dr Tiffany Jenkins is one of the lineup of new appointees that has raised cultural and historical hackles
The latest appointments to the British Museum’s trustees include an academic expert opposed to the restitution of stolen antiquities.
Dr Tiffany Jenkins, author of Keeping Their Marbles, will join new trustees including TV broadcaster and writer Claudia Winkleman, Lord Finkelstein, a Conservative peer who was an adviser to prime minister John Major, the historian and podcaster Tom Holland and the former BBC radio news anchor Martha Kearney for a four-year term. The chair of trustees is George Osborne, the former Conservative chancellor of the exchequer.
