Robyn Williams: Now, let's meet Hans Sloane. I'm in the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, it's very quiet and some wonderful treasures laid out, mainly botanical. Robert Huxley, you're here ...

A TEMPORARY exhibit of a selection of minerals and botanical specimens and books from the Sloane collections is now displayed in a lighted case in the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum at ...

WHAT do milk chocolate, the British Museum, Lord Nelson and Takabuti have in common? The answers can all be found in the sleepy village of Killyleagh on the shores of Strangford Lough. The most famous ...

This week, the British Museum grappled with its colonial roots, removing a statue of founding collector Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) from prominent display. Sloane was an Irish physician and Baronet ...

The British Museum has taken down a prominent bust of its founder, Hans Sloane, whose collection was built using money from his wife’s sugar plantation in Jamaica. The sculpture, by Michael Rysbrack, ...

Based on a conference held at the British Library on June 7-8, 2010 to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the birth of Sir Hans Sloane. This extensively illustrated volume offers fresh perspectives ...

THE bust of a Co Down `slave owner' has been removed from its pedestal at the British Museum - which was founded with his original collection of artefacts. Sir Hans Sloane, whose statute still stands ...

Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane. By James Delbourgo. Allen Lane; 503 pages; £25. To be published in America by Belknap in July; $35. JOINED-UP words and sentences with ...

COLLECTING THE WORLD: THE LIFE AND CURIOSITY OF HANDS SLOANE by James Delbourgo (Allen Lane £25) Admission free . . . When you next read those words at the entrance to one of our national museums, ...