Recent UK measures against the international illicit trade in cultural objects: outlining the UK strategy

Gaimster, D. (2004), ‘Recent UK measures against the international illicit trade in cultural objects: outlining the UK strategy’, NOT FOR SALE. A British-Swiss Conference on the traffic in artefacts from Iraq, Afghanistan and Beyond, (Geneva: British Council), 26-30.

Until recently Switzerland and the UK were branded as centres for the trafficking in art and antiquities unlawfully removed from monuments and sites around the world.