Who owns history?: Elgin’s loot and the case for returning plundered treasure. Geoffrey Robertson. 2020.

In this book, Robertson turns his mind to a vital question that divides the world of art and culture: the restitution of heritage treasures removed in earlier times from countries and peoples who now want them back.

He argues that not only should then’Elgin’ Marbles bemreturned to Greece, so should many looted antiquities on display in the museums of Britain, Europe and America, including the Gweagal Shield - dropped when Cook shot at two men from the Gweagal clan is Botany Bay in 1770.

Robertson’s judgement is uncompromising: cultural heritage belongs to those of whose history it is a part.