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Hartwig Fischer was appointed with a brief to develop a masterplan for badly needed renovation

He has been in the post since 2016.

Like any author, translators want to receive credit for their work instead of being treated as an afterthought

The British Museum has had to apologise after a translator’s words were used without permission. Writer and translator Yilin Wang shared on Twitter that their translations of work by the Chinese feminist poet Qiu Jin appeared in the museum’s exhibition, China’s Hidden Century, without consent.

The move comes amid a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs in the civil service

Yilin Wang had translated passages from a Chinese revolutionary which were used in the China’s Hidden Century exhibition

Exclusive: Yilin Wang claims she did not receive any credit for translations of Qiu Jin’s work in the China’s Hidden Century exhibition

Shahzada Dawood, a UK-based businessman and one of the richest men in the world, was on a trip to see the wreckage of the Titanic when their vessel went missing

In 1796, when the sixth emperor acceded, the Qing presided over a third of the world’s population and one of the most prosperous empires in history. In 1912, the 11th and last emperor abdicated, aged 12, ending 2,000 years of dynastic rule, and paving the way for the modern Chinese…